Triple

T14140694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steacie Science and Engineering Library E350416 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Edgar William Richard Steacie
Edgar William Richard Steacie was a prominent Canadian physical chemist and research administrator known for advancing scientific research and serving as president of the National Research Council of Canada.
E1082767 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Edgar William Richard Steacie | Statement: [Steacie Science and Engineering Library, namedAfter, Edgar William Richard Steacie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar William Richard Steacie
Context triple: [Steacie Science and Engineering Library, namedAfter, Edgar William Richard Steacie]
  • A. Charles Wilfred Orr
    Charles Wilfred Orr was a British composer best known for his art songs and settings of English poetry in the early 20th century.
  • B. Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Tuzo
    Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Tuzo was a senior British Army officer best known for his leadership roles during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and his tenure as General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland.
  • C. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • D. Sir John William Dawson
    Sir John William Dawson was a prominent 19th-century Canadian geologist, educator, and principal of McGill University known for his influential work in paleontology and natural history.
  • E. George Irving Bell
    George Irving Bell was an American physicist and pioneering mountaineer known for his early high-altitude expeditions in the Karakoram, including the first ascent of Masherbrum.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Edgar William Richard Steacie
Triple: [Steacie Science and Engineering Library, namedAfter, Edgar William Richard Steacie]
Generated description
Edgar William Richard Steacie was a prominent Canadian physical chemist and research administrator known for advancing scientific research and serving as president of the National Research Council of Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar William Richard Steacie
Target entity description: Edgar William Richard Steacie was a prominent Canadian physical chemist and research administrator known for advancing scientific research and serving as president of the National Research Council of Canada.
  • A. Charles Wilfred Orr
    Charles Wilfred Orr was a British composer best known for his art songs and settings of English poetry in the early 20th century.
  • B. Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Tuzo
    Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Tuzo was a senior British Army officer best known for his leadership roles during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and his tenure as General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland.
  • C. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • D. Sir John William Dawson
    Sir John William Dawson was a prominent 19th-century Canadian geologist, educator, and principal of McGill University known for his influential work in paleontology and natural history.
  • E. George Irving Bell
    George Irving Bell was an American physicist and pioneering mountaineer known for his early high-altitude expeditions in the Karakoram, including the first ascent of Masherbrum.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d827865f608190b311820428ae027b completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6111a36081909beff35c88a56960 completed April 14, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcdf18e3d08190b287e2da192d05eb completed May 7, 2026, 6:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fce1a2a4c881908d18b45917286712 completed May 7, 2026, 7:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fce24e7860819097f51a4907c894a7 completed May 7, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:47 a.m.