Triple

T4861234
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McClelland and Stewart E108663 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John McClelland
John McClelland was a Canadian publisher best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the influential publishing house McClelland and Stewart.
E485502 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 McClelland | Statement: [McClelland and Stewart, foundedBy, John McClelland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McClelland
Context triple: [McClelland and Stewart, foundedBy, John McClelland]
  • A. Hugh McCracken
    Hugh McCracken was an American session guitarist and harmonica player renowned for his work with major artists such as Paul McCartney, Steely Dan, and Aretha Franklin.
  • B. Joseph Cather Newsom
    Joseph Cather Newsom was a prominent late-19th-century American architect known for his elaborate Queen Anne and Victorian-style buildings in California.
  • C. John Taylor Johnston
    John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. William Lindsay Gresham
    William Lindsay Gresham was an American novelist and nonfiction writer best known for his dark 1946 carnival noir novel "Nightmare Alley," which has been adapted into multiple films.
  • 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 McClelland
Triple: [McClelland and Stewart, foundedBy, John McClelland]
Generated description
John McClelland was a Canadian publisher best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the influential publishing house McClelland and Stewart.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McClelland
Target entity description: John McClelland was a Canadian publisher best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the influential publishing house McClelland and Stewart.
  • A. Hugh McCracken
    Hugh McCracken was an American session guitarist and harmonica player renowned for his work with major artists such as Paul McCartney, Steely Dan, and Aretha Franklin.
  • B. Joseph Cather Newsom
    Joseph Cather Newsom was a prominent late-19th-century American architect known for his elaborate Queen Anne and Victorian-style buildings in California.
  • C. John Taylor Johnston
    John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. William Lindsay Gresham
    William Lindsay Gresham was an American novelist and nonfiction writer best known for his dark 1946 carnival noir novel "Nightmare Alley," which has been adapted into multiple films.
  • 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d5e247c8190b6ae4e9b529f0345 completed March 20, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be89d9e6688190b8a8ad3137148e50 completed March 21, 2026, 12:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be8a9c72848190978797a33d0d83c8 completed March 21, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be8b3718288190b2fc319fdad0a7c0 completed March 21, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.