Triple

T15177545
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Beaver Club E362649 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Duncan McGillivray
Duncan McGillivray was a prominent late-18th-century Canadian fur trader and explorer associated with the North West Company and the Montreal-based Beaver Club.
E1155183 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: Duncan McGillivray | Statement: [Beaver Club, hasMember, Duncan McGillivray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duncan McGillivray
Context triple: [Beaver Club, hasMember, Duncan McGillivray]
  • A. Duncan Mackenzie
    Duncan Mackenzie was a British archaeologist known for his excavation work in the early 20th century, including significant contributions to the study of Near Eastern sites.
  • B. Duncan Makenzie
    Duncan Makenzie is the protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Imperial Earth," a third-generation colonist from Titan who becomes a key political and cultural bridge between Saturn’s moon and Earth.
  • C. Miles Macdonell
    Miles Macdonell was a Scottish-born colonial governor best known for leading and administering the early 19th-century Selkirk-sponsored settlement at the Red River in what is now Manitoba, Canada.
  • D. Angus McGill
    Angus McGill was a British journalist and humorist known for his witty newspaper columns and light comic writing.
  • E. Duncan Campbell
    Duncan Campbell is a British journalist and writer best known for his investigative reporting and his long-term marriage to actress Julie Christie.
  • 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: Duncan McGillivray
Triple: [Beaver Club, hasMember, Duncan McGillivray]
Generated description
Duncan McGillivray was a prominent late-18th-century Canadian fur trader and explorer associated with the North West Company and the Montreal-based Beaver Club.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duncan McGillivray
Target entity description: Duncan McGillivray was a prominent late-18th-century Canadian fur trader and explorer associated with the North West Company and the Montreal-based Beaver Club.
  • A. Duncan Mackenzie
    Duncan Mackenzie was a British archaeologist known for his excavation work in the early 20th century, including significant contributions to the study of Near Eastern sites.
  • B. Duncan Makenzie
    Duncan Makenzie is the protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Imperial Earth," a third-generation colonist from Titan who becomes a key political and cultural bridge between Saturn’s moon and Earth.
  • C. Miles Macdonell
    Miles Macdonell was a Scottish-born colonial governor best known for leading and administering the early 19th-century Selkirk-sponsored settlement at the Red River in what is now Manitoba, Canada.
  • D. Angus McGill
    Angus McGill was a British journalist and humorist known for his witty newspaper columns and light comic writing.
  • E. Duncan Campbell
    Duncan Campbell is a British journalist and writer best known for his investigative reporting and his long-term marriage to actress Julie Christie.
  • 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_69d85a09a39c81908759f23268e2d408 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e00663b4148190b647592eda315d1d completed April 15, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff133950288190a5ffeb52ee0bac37 completed May 9, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff145ac8e081908b075cee67e82aa3 completed May 9, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff1509e5a48190b69f1a44d793e07d completed May 9, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:09 a.m.