Triple
T18337945
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Abbott |
E439321
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John A. Macdonald |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 A. Macdonald | Statement: [John Abbott, precededBy, John A. Macdonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Macdonald Context triple: [John Abbott, precededBy, John A. Macdonald]
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A.
John A. Macdonald
chosen
John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and a key architect of Canadian Confederation in the 19th century.
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B.
John Sandfield Macdonald
John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
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C.
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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D.
John A. MacDonald
John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
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E.
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald was a prominent French general and later Marshal of France who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e50ecf3b4c81909372630ab634dd43 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:20 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.