Triple

T16388037
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McConnell Engineering Building E397974 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John Wilson McConnell
John Wilson McConnell was a prominent Canadian businessman and philanthropist known for his significant contributions to education and public institutions in Montreal.
 E1209862 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 Wilson McConnell | Statement: [McConnell Engineering Building, namedAfter, John Wilson McConnell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Wilson McConnell
Context triple: [McConnell Engineering Building, namedAfter, John Wilson McConnell]
  • A. Don McKay
    Don McKay is a Canadian poet renowned for his nature-focused, philosophically rich verse and significant influence on contemporary Canadian poetry.
  • B. Earl Christian Campbell
    Earl Christian Campbell is a former American football running back, nicknamed "The Tyler Rose," who became a Hall of Famer after starring at the University of Texas and with the NFL's Houston Oilers.
  • C. Gordon McIlwham
    Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
  • D. James McKay
    James McKay is the principled and peace-seeking Easterner who becomes embroiled in a violent Western land feud in the classic film "The Big Country."
  • E. Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • 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 Wilson McConnell
Triple: [McConnell Engineering Building, namedAfter, John Wilson McConnell]
Generated description
John Wilson McConnell was a prominent Canadian businessman and philanthropist known for his significant contributions to education and public institutions in Montreal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Wilson McConnell
Target entity description: John Wilson McConnell was a prominent Canadian businessman and philanthropist known for his significant contributions to education and public institutions in Montreal.
  • A. Don McKay
    Don McKay is a Canadian poet renowned for his nature-focused, philosophically rich verse and significant influence on contemporary Canadian poetry.
  • B. Earl Christian Campbell
    Earl Christian Campbell is a former American football running back, nicknamed "The Tyler Rose," who became a Hall of Famer after starring at the University of Texas and with the NFL's Houston Oilers.
  • C. Gordon McIlwham
    Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
  • D. James McKay
    James McKay is the principled and peace-seeking Easterner who becomes embroiled in a violent Western land feud in the classic film "The Big Country."
  • E. Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • 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_69d87f2880b48190ae1a9673a3bbef80 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3263f18988190800b921381d60c1b completed April 18, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00356ed47c819085aaf101459dd55c completed May 10, 2026, 7:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00368287d48190b510541eb7851942 completed May 10, 2026, 7:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a003766d4ec8190ab98387781f85bd6 completed May 10, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:08 a.m.