Triple

T17283843
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McMasterville E419600 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William McMaster
William McMaster was a prominent Canadian businessman, banker, and philanthropist whose contributions to education and public life led to several places and institutions bearing his name.
E1261842 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: William McMaster | Statement: [McMasterville, namedAfter, William McMaster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McMaster
Context triple: [McMasterville, namedAfter, William McMaster]
  • A. John C. Munro
    John C. Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, notably representing the Hamilton area.
  • B. C. W. Orr
    C. W. Orr was an English composer best known for his art songs, particularly his settings of A. E. Housman's poetry.
  • C. Lewis Macdonald
    Lewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament and held various ministerial and parliamentary roles.
  • D. George Esson
    George Esson is a Scottish former senior police officer known for his prominent roles in major criminal investigations and public safety operations in the UK.
  • E. William Edward Davidson
    William Edward Davidson was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Mont Maudit in the Mont Blanc massif.
  • 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: William McMaster
Triple: [McMasterville, namedAfter, William McMaster]
Generated description
William McMaster was a prominent Canadian businessman, banker, and philanthropist whose contributions to education and public life led to several places and institutions bearing his name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McMaster
Target entity description: William McMaster was a prominent Canadian businessman, banker, and philanthropist whose contributions to education and public life led to several places and institutions bearing his name.
  • A. John C. Munro
    John C. Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, notably representing the Hamilton area.
  • B. C. W. Orr
    C. W. Orr was an English composer best known for his art songs, particularly his settings of A. E. Housman's poetry.
  • C. Lewis Macdonald
    Lewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament and held various ministerial and parliamentary roles.
  • D. George Esson
    George Esson is a Scottish former senior police officer known for his prominent roles in major criminal investigations and public safety operations in the UK.
  • E. William Edward Davidson
    William Edward Davidson was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Alpine peak Mont Maudit in the Mont Blanc massif.
  • 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_69d886da626481908a14ce7830329a35 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4332bd324819080795152293d6d43 completed April 19, 2026, 1:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0180d29f4881908694f0182930d716 completed May 11, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01850140388190949a5f613cef18c2 completed May 11, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a018563d38c819093df94b96b69cfd5 completed May 11, 2026, 7:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:40 a.m.