Triple
T4624205
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia |
E101055
|
entity |
| Predicate | holdsWorkBy |
P57495
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Alex Colville
Alex Colville was a renowned Canadian realist painter known for his meticulously composed, quietly unsettling depictions of everyday life.
|
E456316
|
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: Alex Colville | Statement: [Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, holdsWorkBy, Alex Colville]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alex Colville Context triple: [Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, holdsWorkBy, Alex Colville]
-
A.
William Orpen
William Orpen was a prominent Irish-born British painter best known for his powerful and detailed portraits and official war art produced during the First World War.
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B.
Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson was a pioneering early 20th-century Canadian painter renowned for his expressive landscapes of the northern wilderness, especially Algonquin Park, and for profoundly influencing the Group of Seven.
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C.
Emily Carr
Emily Carr was a pioneering Canadian modernist painter and writer renowned for her expressive depictions of Indigenous villages and the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
Sidney Nolan
Sidney Nolan was a prominent Australian modernist painter best known for his iconic series depicting the outlaw Ned Kelly and the Australian landscape.
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E.
W. S. Van Dyke
W. S. Van Dyke was an American film director of Hollywood’s classic era, best known for his efficient, fast-paced filmmaking on hits like The Thin Man series and San Francisco.
- 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: Alex Colville Triple: [Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, holdsWorkBy, Alex Colville]
Generated description
Alex Colville was a renowned Canadian realist painter known for his meticulously composed, quietly unsettling depictions of everyday life.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alex Colville Target entity description: Alex Colville was a renowned Canadian realist painter known for his meticulously composed, quietly unsettling depictions of everyday life.
-
A.
William Orpen
William Orpen was a prominent Irish-born British painter best known for his powerful and detailed portraits and official war art produced during the First World War.
-
B.
Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson was a pioneering early 20th-century Canadian painter renowned for his expressive landscapes of the northern wilderness, especially Algonquin Park, and for profoundly influencing the Group of Seven.
-
C.
Emily Carr
Emily Carr was a pioneering Canadian modernist painter and writer renowned for her expressive depictions of Indigenous villages and the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
-
D.
Sidney Nolan
Sidney Nolan was a prominent Australian modernist painter best known for his iconic series depicting the outlaw Ned Kelly and the Australian landscape.
-
E.
W. S. Van Dyke
W. S. Van Dyke was an American film director of Hollywood’s classic era, best known for his efficient, fast-paced filmmaking on hits like The Thin Man series and San Francisco.
- 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_69bd43d0497c8190ac23c65c5804846a |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6234e8108190b985270b9ddd1f3a |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:05 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bdfaa564988190b565c26b9cd3d3be |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bdfb6fa3fc8190b79b641025710eb1 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bdfbeddd7c8190955bd3363fec4ca1 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.