Triple

T5656988
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John A. Macdonald E124642 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Agnes Macdonald
Agnes Macdonald was the second wife of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and served as a prominent political hostess and public figure in late 19th-century Canada.
E537741 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: Agnes Macdonald | Statement: [John A. Macdonald, spouse, Agnes Macdonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Agnes Macdonald
Context triple: [John A. Macdonald, spouse, Agnes Macdonald]
  • A. Jean Grahame
    Jean Grahame is the mother of American actress Gloria Grahame, known for her work in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Margaret MacLachlan
    Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
  • C. Caroline Carmichael McIntosh
    Caroline Carmichael McIntosh was the second wife of U.S. President Millard Fillmore, whom he married after leaving office.
  • D. Janet Munro
    Janet Munro was a British actress best known for her roles in several late-1950s and early-1960s Disney films.
  • E. Elspeth Thomson
    Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
  • 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: Agnes Macdonald
Triple: [John A. Macdonald, spouse, Agnes Macdonald]
Generated description
Agnes Macdonald was the second wife of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and served as a prominent political hostess and public figure in late 19th-century Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Agnes Macdonald
Target entity description: Agnes Macdonald was the second wife of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and served as a prominent political hostess and public figure in late 19th-century Canada.
  • A. Jean Grahame
    Jean Grahame is the mother of American actress Gloria Grahame, known for her work in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • B. Margaret MacLachlan
    Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
  • C. Caroline Carmichael McIntosh
    Caroline Carmichael McIntosh was the second wife of U.S. President Millard Fillmore, whom he married after leaving office.
  • D. Janet Munro
    Janet Munro was a British actress best known for her roles in several late-1950s and early-1960s Disney films.
  • E. Elspeth Thomson
    Elspeth Thomson was the wife of Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows."
  • 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_69c0082774a481909d7e63fb2aad56ac completed March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c022fc54f08190aacc200be31a4256 completed March 22, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d9ec1248190aff680acb4064a49 completed March 22, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04ede30088190a70607458f4653d0 completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04fb365cc8190b825f7c1d66aee0f completed March 22, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:42 p.m.