Triple

T18216489

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	MacVicar	`E436172`	entity
Predicate	hasNotableBearer	`P458`	FINISHED
Object	William MacVicar	`—`	NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 MacVicar | Statement: [MacVicar, hasNotableBearer, William MacVicar]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: William MacVicar
Context triple: [MacVicar, hasNotableBearer, William MacVicar]

A. Robert C. O'Brien
Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name of American author Robert Leslie Conly, best known for his Newbery Medal–winning children's novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
B. Robert Emmett McDonough
Robert Emmett McDonough was an American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Georgetown University to name its McDonough School of Business in his honor.
C. John A. MacQuarrie
John A. MacQuarrie was an American sculptor best known for his public monuments and commemorative works in the early 20th century.
D. Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
E. Herbert R. O'Conor
Herbert R. O'Conor was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maryland and later as a U.S. senator in the mid-20th century.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: William MacVicar
Target entity description: William MacVicar is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the MacVicar surname.

A. Robert C. O'Brien
Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name of American author Robert Leslie Conly, best known for his Newbery Medal–winning children's novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
B. Robert Emmett McDonough
Robert Emmett McDonough was an American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Georgetown University to name its McDonough School of Business in his honor.
C. John A. MacQuarrie
John A. MacQuarrie was an American sculptor best known for his public monuments and commemorative works in the early 20th century.
D. Edward P. Doherty
Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
E. Herbert R. O'Conor
Herbert R. O'Conor was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Maryland and later as a U.S. senator in the mid-20th century.
F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8b9103a8081908bbb0836fef10efd`	completed	April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e4e47765a081908d0bbca1245f89ba`	completed	April 19, 2026, 2:19 p.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:32 a.m.