Triple

T4180353
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cunard Line E86578 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object David MacIver
David MacIver was a 19th-century British shipping magnate who co-founded the company that became the Cunard Line, a major transatlantic steamship operator.
 E419972 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: David MacIver | Statement: [Cunard Line, founder, David MacIver]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David MacIver
Context triple: [Cunard Line, founder, David MacIver]
  • A. Derek Wise
    Derek Wise is a Canadian rapper and member of the duo 88Glam, known for his dark, atmospheric sound and affiliation with The Weeknd’s XO collective.
  • B. Christopher B. Roberts
    Christopher B. Roberts is an American academic and engineer who serves as the president of Auburn University.
  • C. Ed Macauley
    Ed Macauley was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and early NBA star known for his scoring, versatility, and success with teams like the Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks.
  • D. David Pegg
    David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
  • E. Michael Andrews
    Michael Andrews is an American film composer and musician known for his atmospheric scores for movies such as Donnie Darko and Bridesmaids.
  • 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: David MacIver
Triple: [Cunard Line, founder, David MacIver]
Generated description
David MacIver was a 19th-century British shipping magnate who co-founded the company that became the Cunard Line, a major transatlantic steamship operator.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David MacIver
Target entity description: David MacIver was a 19th-century British shipping magnate who co-founded the company that became the Cunard Line, a major transatlantic steamship operator.
  • A. Derek Wise
    Derek Wise is a Canadian rapper and member of the duo 88Glam, known for his dark, atmospheric sound and affiliation with The Weeknd’s XO collective.
  • B. Christopher B. Roberts
    Christopher B. Roberts is an American academic and engineer who serves as the president of Auburn University.
  • C. Ed Macauley
    Ed Macauley was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and early NBA star known for his scoring, versatility, and success with teams like the Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks.
  • D. David Pegg
    David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
  • E. Michael Andrews
    Michael Andrews is an American film composer and musician known for his atmospheric scores for movies such as Donnie Darko and Bridesmaids.
  • 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_69aed93de98c8190ad838ce507b77c8a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0302972c819082f6e1938ed417c4 completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b589f89f4481909f95d3ca915bac18 completed March 14, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58e0446d48190a1fd54bcc72af026 completed March 14, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58e8d57cc8190a823a7cf3a3f0cdf completed March 14, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.