Triple

T4682647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flag of Canada E103840 entity
Predicate designedBy P184 FINISHED
Object John Matheson
John Matheson was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician best known as a key architect of Canada’s modern national flag.
E461523 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: John Matheson | Statement: [Flag of Canada, designedBy, John Matheson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Matheson
Context triple: [Flag of Canada, designedBy, John Matheson]
  • A. John Mathieson
    John Mathieson is a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films, particularly in collaboration with directors like Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.
  • B. John Ballantyne
    John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • C. Thomas Sutherland
    Thomas Sutherland was a 19th-century Scottish banker best known for founding the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which grew into one of the world’s largest banking institutions.
  • D. James Richardson
    James Richardson was the father of Hadley Richardson, who was the first wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway.
  • E. Thomas Baker
    Thomas Baker was the early American settler and civic leader after whom the city of Bakersfield, California, is named.
  • 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: John Matheson
Triple: [Flag of Canada, designedBy, John Matheson]
Generated description
John Matheson was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician best known as a key architect of Canada’s modern national flag.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Matheson
Target entity description: John Matheson was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician best known as a key architect of Canada’s modern national flag.
  • A. John Mathieson
    John Mathieson is a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on major films, particularly in collaboration with directors like Ridley Scott and Guy Ritchie.
  • B. John Ballantyne
    John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
  • C. Thomas Sutherland
    Thomas Sutherland was a 19th-century Scottish banker best known for founding the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which grew into one of the world’s largest banking institutions.
  • D. James Richardson
    James Richardson was the father of Hadley Richardson, who was the first wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway.
  • E. Thomas Baker
    Thomas Baker was the early American settler and civic leader after whom the city of Bakersfield, California, is named.
  • 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_69bd43debbf08190b4bc372e286ec234 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd637fedd0819097f59734a9f9a01f completed March 20, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be03ac44d481908ecb1fe84184a886 completed March 21, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be048d53d08190a72fb6d2e788e3c9 completed March 21, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be0529868c8190b20e8966315b263a completed March 21, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:16 p.m.