Triple
T22349811
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William S. O'Brien |
E552497
|
entity |
| Predicate | businessPartner |
P282
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John William Mackay |
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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 William Mackay | Statement: [William S. O'Brien, businessPartner, John William Mackay]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John William Mackay Context triple: [William S. O'Brien, businessPartner, John William Mackay]
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A.
John William Mackay
chosen
John William Mackay was a 19th-century Irish-American industrialist and mining magnate who amassed a vast fortune from Nevada’s Comstock Lode and later became a major figure in transatlantic telecommunications.
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B.
John Mackay
John Mackay is a musician known for his contribution to the album "In Your Mind."
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C.
J.C. MacKenzie
J.C. MacKenzie is a Canadian actor known for his character roles in film and television, including prominent parts in series like Dark Angel and several Martin Scorsese movies.
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D.
John C. Munro
John C. Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, notably representing the Hamilton area.
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E.
John MacKay
John MacKay was an actor known for his role in the 1958 science fiction film "The Lost Missile."
- 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_69e11e4a0ad08190a385b4d343cf6524 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1579ad6708190ba4af97a02d0758d |
completed | April 29, 2026, 12:58 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:43 p.m.