Triple

T1683449
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Secretary of State for External Affairs E36388 entity
Predicate officeHoldersInclude P537 FINISHED
Object Barbara McDougall
Barbara McDougall is a Canadian politician and former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles in the late 20th century.
E310226 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: Barbara McDougall | Statement: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Barbara McDougall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbara McDougall
Context triple: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Barbara McDougall]
  • A. Barbara Dickson
    Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
  • B. Barbara Duncan
    Barbara Duncan was the second wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal and World War II.
  • C. Barbara Trentham
    Barbara Trentham was an American model and actress who later became a painter, known in part for her marriage to British comedian John Cleese.
  • D. Barbara Leeds
    Barbara Leeds was an American actress best known for her film and television work in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Pamela Munro
    Pamela Munro is an American linguist known for her extensive work documenting and analyzing Indigenous languages of the Americas, including the Maricopa language.
  • 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: Barbara McDougall
Triple: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Barbara McDougall]
Generated description
Barbara McDougall is a Canadian politician and former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles in the late 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbara McDougall
Target entity description: Barbara McDougall is a Canadian politician and former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister who served prominently in federal government roles in the late 20th century.
  • A. Barbara Dickson
    Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress known for her folk-inspired pop music and roles in musical theatre, including the hit musical "Blood Brothers."
  • B. Barbara Duncan
    Barbara Duncan was the second wife of Harry Hopkins, a key advisor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal and World War II.
  • C. Barbara Trentham
    Barbara Trentham was an American model and actress who later became a painter, known in part for her marriage to British comedian John Cleese.
  • D. Barbara Leeds
    Barbara Leeds was an American actress best known for her film and television work in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Pamela Munro
    Pamela Munro is an American linguist known for her extensive work documenting and analyzing Indigenous languages of the Americas, including the Maricopa language.
  • 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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa627ab38081909d5f264ca49e036a completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b05570cd488190bd9ce6b3a854a427 completed March 10, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b061ddcc0c81908fa237d8c8aae72f completed March 10, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0628d5f608190b7a13ac2e8b8d721 completed March 10, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.