Triple
T5747196
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Graves Simcoe |
E126763
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entity |
| Predicate | spouse |
P13
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe
Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was a British artist and diarist best known for her detailed watercolours and journals documenting late 18th-century life in colonial Canada.
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E126763
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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: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe | Statement: [John Graves Simcoe, spouse, Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe Context triple: [John Graves Simcoe, spouse, Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe]
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A.
William McGillivray
William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
Louisa MacDonald
Louisa MacDonald was a British woman best known as the mother of Stanley Baldwin, who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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C.
John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, known for founding Toronto (then York) and promoting early anti-slavery measures in the province.
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D.
Catharina Livingston
Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
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E.
Renda St. Clair
Renda St. Clair is an American businesswoman and rancher best known as the wife of former ExxonMobil CEO and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
- 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: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe Triple: [John Graves Simcoe, spouse, Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe]
Generated description
Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was a British artist and diarist best known for her detailed watercolours and journals documenting late 18th-century life in colonial Canada.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe Target entity description: Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe was a British artist and diarist best known for her detailed watercolours and journals documenting late 18th-century life in colonial Canada.
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A.
William McGillivray
William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
Louisa MacDonald
Louisa MacDonald was a British woman best known as the mother of Stanley Baldwin, who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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C.
John Graves Simcoe
chosen
John Graves Simcoe was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, known for founding Toronto (then York) and promoting early anti-slavery measures in the province.
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D.
Catharina Livingston
Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
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E.
Renda St. Clair
Renda St. Clair is an American businesswoman and rancher best known as the wife of former ExxonMobil CEO and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
- F. None of above.
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_69c0083179548190b384b0bf3c08ca4d |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c02885b0288190835809681a364b1f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:36 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c07e30fe98819096ad6e09fbd463b5 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 11:41 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c08d5a3fbc8190bd0a0862ad6ae66d |
completed | March 23, 2026, 12:46 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c08dc4d12c8190a7a245d583ef08d4 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 12:48 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:48 p.m.