Triple
T20799521
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Sandfield Macdonald |
E512002
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthPlace |
P1
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FINISHED |
| Object | St. Raphael, Upper Canada |
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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: St. Raphael, Upper Canada | Statement: [John Sandfield Macdonald, birthPlace, St. Raphael, Upper Canada]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St. Raphael, Upper Canada Context triple: [John Sandfield Macdonald, birthPlace, St. Raphael, Upper Canada]
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A.
St. Raphael, Upper Canada
chosen
St. Raphael, Upper Canada was a historic rural settlement in what is now Ontario, Canada, notable as the birthplace of early Canadian politician and first Premier of Ontario, John Sandfield Macdonald.
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B.
Newark, Upper Canada
Newark, Upper Canada was the early colonial town that served as the first capital of Upper Canada, located on the Niagara River in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
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C.
York, Upper Canada
York, Upper Canada was the colonial capital of Upper Canada and a key administrative and military center that later became the city of Toronto.
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D.
Cobourg, Upper Canada
Cobourg, Upper Canada was a 19th-century town in what is now Ontario, Canada, known as an early educational and administrative center in the province.
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E.
Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada
Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada was a 19th-century parish town near Montreal that became historically significant as a stronghold of the Patriote rebels during the Lower Canada Rebellion.
- 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_69e0b4cc69f481908e98751e697b9df4 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c2aef2e08190a779ed1d516ecba7 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:19 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:39 p.m.