Triple

T4545518
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canadian literature canon E110036 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Al Purdy
Al Purdy was a prominent Canadian poet celebrated for his colloquial style and vivid portrayals of Canadian landscapes and identity.
E452004 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: Al Purdy | Statement: [Canadian literature canon, associatedWith, Al Purdy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Purdy
Context triple: [Canadian literature canon, associatedWith, Al Purdy]
  • A. Murray Kinnell
    Murray Kinnell was an English-born character actor active in early 20th-century American cinema, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. Milton Carruth
    Milton Carruth was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • C. W. D. Snodgrass
    W. D. Snodgrass was an American poet whose intensely personal, emotionally candid verse helped define and popularize the confessional poetry movement in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Robert W. Service
    Robert W. Service was a British-Canadian poet and writer best known for his narrative verse about the Yukon and the Klondike Gold Rush, such as "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
  • E. Cecil Purdy
    Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
  • 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: Al Purdy
Triple: [Canadian literature canon, associatedWith, Al Purdy]
Generated description
Al Purdy was a prominent Canadian poet celebrated for his colloquial style and vivid portrayals of Canadian landscapes and identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Purdy
Target entity description: Al Purdy was a prominent Canadian poet celebrated for his colloquial style and vivid portrayals of Canadian landscapes and identity.
  • A. Murray Kinnell
    Murray Kinnell was an English-born character actor active in early 20th-century American cinema, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. Milton Carruth
    Milton Carruth was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • C. W. D. Snodgrass
    W. D. Snodgrass was an American poet whose intensely personal, emotionally candid verse helped define and popularize the confessional poetry movement in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Robert W. Service
    Robert W. Service was a British-Canadian poet and writer best known for his narrative verse about the Yukon and the Klondike Gold Rush, such as "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
  • E. Cecil Purdy
    Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
  • 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_69bd4412524c8190be5bcc9ddee91848 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd57d62a8481909d5d803a582c76a1 completed March 20, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdb936f3348190af0784d472bff312 completed March 20, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdbeb14e6881908c2a95dbe6b200e6 completed March 20, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdbf09a5f8819093f5f4ab483332b9 completed March 20, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.