Triple
T1683460
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Secretary of State for External Affairs |
E36388
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHoldersInclude |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Robert Laird Borden
Robert Laird Borden was the eighth prime minister of Canada, best known for leading the country through World War I and securing greater autonomy for Canada within the British Empire.
|
E197034
|
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: Robert Laird Borden | Statement: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Robert Laird Borden]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Laird Borden Context triple: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Robert Laird Borden]
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A.
Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
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B.
Louis St. Laurent
Louis St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957, overseeing a period of postwar prosperity and international engagement.
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C.
Sir John Thompson (4th Prime Minister of Canada)
Sir John Thompson was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer, judge, and statesman who briefly served as the fourth Prime Minister of Canada before dying in office in 1894.
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D.
Wilfred Urquhart
Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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E.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King was Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, leading the country through the Great Depression and the Second World War.
- 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: Robert Laird Borden Triple: [Secretary of State for External Affairs, officeHoldersInclude, Robert Laird Borden]
Generated description
Robert Laird Borden was the eighth prime minister of Canada, best known for leading the country through World War I and securing greater autonomy for Canada within the British Empire.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Laird Borden Target entity description: Robert Laird Borden was the eighth prime minister of Canada, best known for leading the country through World War I and securing greater autonomy for Canada within the British Empire.
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A.
Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
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B.
Louis St. Laurent
Louis St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957, overseeing a period of postwar prosperity and international engagement.
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C.
Sir John Thompson (4th Prime Minister of Canada)
Sir John Thompson was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer, judge, and statesman who briefly served as the fourth Prime Minister of Canada before dying in office in 1894.
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D.
Wilfred Urquhart
Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
-
E.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King was Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, leading the country through the Great Depression and the Second World War.
- 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_69ada0cb18348190baf7a30c231c7349 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ada28b008c8190a46570a9f5f9f7a3 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:23 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ada4dfc9188190845a4e4490318d68 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:33 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.