Triple
T16095281
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde |
E390465
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sir Jim McDonald |
E93105
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Sir Jim McDonald | Statement: [Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, precededBy, Sir Jim McDonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Jim McDonald Context triple: [Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, precededBy, Sir Jim McDonald]
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A.
Sir Jim McDonald
chosen
Sir Jim McDonald is a prominent Scottish engineer and academic leader known for his contributions to power systems engineering and his role as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde.
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B.
William Maharg
William "Billy" Maharg was an early 20th-century American baseball player and later a figure implicated in the 1919 Black Sox World Series game-fixing scandal.
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C.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
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D.
Tom Hanniger
Tom Hanniger is the troubled miner and central figure of the slasher film "My Bloody Valentine 3D," whose dark past and possible connection to a series of brutal murders drive the movie’s suspense.
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E.
James McMillan
James McMillan was a U.S. senator from Michigan best known for championing the early 20th-century urban planning effort that reshaped Washington, D.C., commonly referred to as the McMillan Plan.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d87f198bc48190a8b7e53ca15b7ead |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e1859283008190baac96142b5c7e53 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 12:57 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ffeb991ba88190ad568a49069f9701 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 2:21 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.