Triple
T3012253
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Macdonald Campus |
E82249
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sir William Macdonald
Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
|
E317680
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 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: Sir William Macdonald | Statement: [Macdonald Campus, namedAfter, Sir William Macdonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir William Macdonald Context triple: [Macdonald Campus, namedAfter, Sir William Macdonald]
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A.
Wilfred Urquhart
Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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B.
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician, and reform leader who became a central figure in early Canadian democracy and led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
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C.
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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D.
Vincent Massey
Vincent Massey was a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who became the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
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E.
Guy Carleton
Guy Carleton was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in defending Canada during the American Revolutionary War and later serving as Governor of Quebec.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Sir William Macdonald Triple: [Macdonald Campus, namedAfter, Sir William Macdonald]
Generated description
Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir William Macdonald Target entity description: Sir William Macdonald was a prominent Canadian tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist whose generous endowments significantly shaped McGill University and its agricultural education programs.
-
A.
Wilfred Urquhart
Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
-
B.
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician, and reform leader who became a central figure in early Canadian democracy and led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
-
C.
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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D.
Vincent Massey
Vincent Massey was a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who became the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
-
E.
Guy Carleton
Guy Carleton was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in defending Canada during the American Revolutionary War and later serving as Governor of Quebec.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad9a66c334819082d1d320c48eca1b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b12e6410e481909753bef34e053363 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 8:57 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b12f324fdc8190a279a773ef32ed01 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 9 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b1c641f3308190912252e5d5e4f843 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 7:45 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.