Triple
T21108201
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Canadian Confederation |
E520106
|
entity |
| Predicate | firstPrimeMinisterAfter |
P4694
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FINISHED |
| Object | John A. Macdonald |
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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: John A. Macdonald | Statement: [Canadian Confederation, firstPrimeMinisterAfter, John A. Macdonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Macdonald Context triple: [Canadian Confederation, firstPrimeMinisterAfter, 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.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: firstPrimeMinisterAfter Context triple: [Canadian Confederation, firstPrimeMinisterAfter, John A. Macdonald]
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A.
firstPrimeMinister
chosen
Indicates that one entity is the first person to hold the office of prime minister of the other entity.
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B.
firstPremier
Indicates that one entity is the first person to hold the office of premier (head of government) of another entity, such as a country or region.
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C.
lastPrimeMinister
Indicates that the subject is the most recent individual to have held the office of prime minister of the object entity.
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D.
foundingPrimeMinister
Indicates that the subject served as the first (founding) prime minister at the establishment of the object state or government.
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E.
firstMinister
Indicates that one entity serves as the first minister (head of government or chief minister) of another entity, such as a country, region, or jurisdiction.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (3 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_69e0b509a318819092fbbcb21d1fe603 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e720ffa998819082db225363ac3b23 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 7:02 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69e5dbff56848190a03b350a9305c612 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 7:55 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:53 p.m.