Triple

T19763660
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pacific Fur Company E474694 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object Duncan McDougall — 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: Duncan McDougall | Statement: [Pacific Fur Company, employed, Duncan McDougall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Duncan McDougall
Context triple: [Pacific Fur Company, employed, Duncan McDougall]
  • A. Reginald S. Macdonald
    Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
  • B. David Fowler McIntyre
    David Fowler McIntyre was a Scottish aviator and entrepreneur best known for co-founding Scottish Aviation and contributing significantly to the development of the British aviation industry.
  • C. Robert MacLean
    Robert MacLean is known primarily as the husband of sociologist Annie Marion MacLean, who was a prominent figure in early American sociology.
  • D. Alister McIntyre
    Alister McIntyre was a prominent Grenadian economist and regional leader who played a key role in advancing Caribbean economic integration and development.
  • E. Donald Allison Durrant
    Donald Allison Durrant, better known as Don Durant, was an American actor and singer best remembered for starring in the 1950s television Western series "Johnny Ringo."
  • 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: Duncan McDougall
Target entity description: Duncan McDougall was a 19th-century fur trader and partner of the Pacific Fur Company who played a key role in its operations in the Pacific Northwest.
  • A. Reginald S. Macdonald
    Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
  • B. David Fowler McIntyre
    David Fowler McIntyre was a Scottish aviator and entrepreneur best known for co-founding Scottish Aviation and contributing significantly to the development of the British aviation industry.
  • C. Robert MacLean
    Robert MacLean is known primarily as the husband of sociologist Annie Marion MacLean, who was a prominent figure in early American sociology.
  • D. Alister McIntyre
    Alister McIntyre was a prominent Grenadian economist and regional leader who played a key role in advancing Caribbean economic integration and development.
  • E. Donald Allison Durrant
    Donald Allison Durrant, better known as Don Durant, was an American actor and singer best remembered for starring in the 1950s television Western series "Johnny Ringo."
  • 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_69d8e51a43a08190956bc6df13c91a77 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65321a35c819084556118ad4ef1ee completed April 20, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.