Triple

T1552603
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Years with General Motors E33126 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object John McDonald
John McDonald was a co-author of Alfred P. Sloan Jr.’s influential business memoir "My Years with General Motors," helping to document the history and management practices of the automotive giant.
 E190838 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: John McDonald | Statement: [My Years with General Motors, coAuthor, John McDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John McDonald
Context triple: [My Years with General Motors, coAuthor, John McDonald]
  • A. Fergus McMaster
    Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
  • B. Ray McDonald
    Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • C. Jack McGowan
    Jack McGowan was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical "Babes in Arms."
  • D. William McSweeny
    William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
  • E. James McGill
    James McGill was an 18th–19th century Scottish-Canadian merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of McGill University in Montreal.
  • 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: John McDonald
Triple: [My Years with General Motors, coAuthor, John McDonald]
Generated description
John McDonald was a co-author of Alfred P. Sloan Jr.’s influential business memoir "My Years with General Motors," helping to document the history and management practices of the automotive giant.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John McDonald
Target entity description: John McDonald was a co-author of Alfred P. Sloan Jr.’s influential business memoir "My Years with General Motors," helping to document the history and management practices of the automotive giant.
  • A. Fergus McMaster
    Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
  • B. Ray McDonald
    Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • C. Jack McGowan
    Jack McGowan was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical "Babes in Arms."
  • D. William McSweeny
    William McSweeny is an author best known for co-writing the autobiography "Go Up for Glory" with basketball legend Bill Russell.
  • E. James McGill
    James McGill was an 18th–19th century Scottish-Canadian merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of McGill University in Montreal.
  • 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_69a885ee6db8819099502bc5ce8af881 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9086aed94819085c8194b4127c278 completed March 5, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad797907ac81908ede43626798827d completed March 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad7a1223fc8190b7d62217c17f7517 completed March 8, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7b0787c88190a59a815fa808ac6b completed March 8, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.