Triple
T4945767
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sandford Fleming |
E111045
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sir Sandford Fleming |
E111045
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Sir Sandford Fleming | Statement: [Sandford Fleming, fullName, Sir Sandford Fleming]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Sandford Fleming Context triple: [Sandford Fleming, fullName, Sir Sandford Fleming]
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A.
Sandford Fleming
chosen
Sandford Fleming was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor best known for proposing worldwide standard time zones and contributing significantly to Canada's railway development.
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B.
Melville James Bell
Melville James Bell was a British-born phonetician and educator best known for developing Visible Speech, a system of phonetic notation used to teach correct pronunciation.
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C.
Melville James Bell
Melville James Bell was the son of phonetician Alexander Melville Bell and a member of the Bell family known for its contributions to speech and communication studies.
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D.
Alexander Kerr
Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
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E.
Henry Stephenson
Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd441721cc819085c7e33fe0876818 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd70aa890c81908e685ec5e88cae1f |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:07 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be77c6566c8190b0c76c05b9d82053 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:31 p.m.