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]
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.