Triple

T5322674
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Sandfield Macdonald E121710 entity
Predicate succeededBy P78 FINISHED
Object Edward Blake
Edward Blake was a prominent 19th-century Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who served as Premier of Ontario and later as leader of the federal Liberal Party.
E512008 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: Edward Blake | Statement: [John Sandfield Macdonald, succeededBy, Edward Blake]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Blake
Context triple: [John Sandfield Macdonald, succeededBy, Edward Blake]
  • A. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • B. George William Gordon
    George William Gordon was a Jamaican politician, businessman, and critic of colonial rule who became a national hero after being executed for his alleged role in the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865.
  • C. Reginald McKenna
    Reginald McKenna was a British Liberal politician who held several senior government posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the early 20th century.
  • D. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • E. George Dudley
    George Dudley was a prominent Canadian ice hockey executive and administrator who played a key role in shaping amateur hockey governance in Canada.
  • 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: Edward Blake
Triple: [John Sandfield Macdonald, succeededBy, Edward Blake]
Generated description
Edward Blake was a prominent 19th-century Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who served as Premier of Ontario and later as leader of the federal Liberal Party.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Blake
Target entity description: Edward Blake was a prominent 19th-century Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who served as Premier of Ontario and later as leader of the federal Liberal Party.
  • A. Edward Whitchurch
    Edward Whitchurch was a 16th-century English printer and Protestant reformer best known for co-publishing early English translations of the Bible, including the Matthew Bible.
  • B. George William Gordon
    George William Gordon was a Jamaican politician, businessman, and critic of colonial rule who became a national hero after being executed for his alleged role in the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865.
  • C. Reginald McKenna
    Reginald McKenna was a British Liberal politician who held several senior government posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the early 20th century.
  • D. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • E. George Dudley
    George Dudley was a prominent Canadian ice hockey executive and administrator who played a key role in shaping amateur hockey governance in Canada.
  • 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_69bd463d956c819088105c3db802c017 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8577ba3881909a28cbf744648256 completed March 20, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf18a836988190b7baf3c24fea6f03 completed March 21, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf19c8273081908a5138e9af921ec7 completed March 21, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1a3049648190b5040e587671610a completed March 21, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:59 p.m.