Triple

T16157594
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Administration Building E392085 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Sir William Christopher Macdonald James
Sir William Christopher Macdonald James was a prominent benefactor and figure associated with McGill University, honored for his significant contributions to the institution.
E1197322 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: Sir William Christopher Macdonald James | Statement: [James Administration Building, namedAfter, Sir William Christopher Macdonald James]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir William Christopher Macdonald James
Context triple: [James Administration Building, namedAfter, Sir William Christopher Macdonald James]
  • A. Sir John Turnbull Macpherson
    Sir John Turnbull Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor and later Governor-General of Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sir John William Wilson
    Sir John William Wilson was a British Liberal politician and businessman who served as Member of Parliament for North Worcestershire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Sir George Adam Smith
    Sir George Adam Smith was a prominent Scottish theologian and biblical scholar known for his influential works on the Old Testament and his leadership as Principal of the University of Aberdeen.
  • D. Henry Campbell-Bannerman
    Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908, overseeing significant social and military reforms.
  • E. William Sutherland Maxwell
    William Sutherland Maxwell was a Canadian architect best known in the Bahá’í Faith for designing the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa.
  • 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: Sir William Christopher Macdonald James
Triple: [James Administration Building, namedAfter, Sir William Christopher Macdonald James]
Generated description
Sir William Christopher Macdonald James was a prominent benefactor and figure associated with McGill University, honored for his significant contributions to the institution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir William Christopher Macdonald James
Target entity description: Sir William Christopher Macdonald James was a prominent benefactor and figure associated with McGill University, honored for his significant contributions to the institution.
  • A. Sir John Turnbull Macpherson
    Sir John Turnbull Macpherson was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor and later Governor-General of Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Sir John William Wilson
    Sir John William Wilson was a British Liberal politician and businessman who served as Member of Parliament for North Worcestershire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Sir George Adam Smith
    Sir George Adam Smith was a prominent Scottish theologian and biblical scholar known for his influential works on the Old Testament and his leadership as Principal of the University of Aberdeen.
  • D. Henry Campbell-Bannerman
    Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908, overseeing significant social and military reforms.
  • E. William Sutherland Maxwell
    William Sutherland Maxwell was a Canadian architect best known in the Bahá’í Faith for designing the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa.
  • 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_69d87f1c65e48190aa2b4c472e9bafc4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21e5b57a48190b6fe21f1c63e1ba3 completed April 17, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff7b05a588190a44d1c922195a87b completed May 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff87caefc8190836d690dfb2523f9 completed May 10, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fff98b3d7c8190bb284321d17f58e2 completed May 10, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.