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]
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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.
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B.
John Ballantyne
John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
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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.
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D.
James Richardson
James Richardson was the father of Hadley Richardson, who was the first wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway.
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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.
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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.
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B.
John Ballantyne
John Ballantyne is the amnesiac patient and central male protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 psychological thriller "Spellbound."
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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.
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D.
James Richardson
James Richardson was the father of Hadley Richardson, who was the first wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway.
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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.