Triple

T6577247
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colony of British Columbia (mainland) E157198 entity
Predicate firstGovernor P291 FINISHED
Object James Douglas
James Douglas was a 19th-century colonial administrator who played a key role in shaping early British rule and development in what is now western Canada.
E602387 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: James Douglas | Statement: [Colony of British Columbia (mainland), firstGovernor, James Douglas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Douglas
Context triple: [Colony of British Columbia (mainland), firstGovernor, James Douglas]
  • A. James Douglas
    James Douglas was a prominent Scottish knight and close ally of Robert the Bruce, renowned for his guerrilla warfare tactics against the English during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • B. James Douglas
    James Douglas was a key early leader and philanthropist in American public health who helped establish what became the American Cancer Society.
  • C. James Douglas
    James Douglas was an American actor known for his film and television roles in the mid-20th century, including appearing alongside Elvis Presley in "G.I. Blues."
  • D. John Bruce
    John Bruce was the short-lived son and heir of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, and his queen consort Elizabeth de Burgh.
  • E. William Vans Murray
    William Vans Murray was an American diplomat and politician best known for helping negotiate peace with France during the Quasi-War at the turn of the 19th century.
  • 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: James Douglas
Triple: [Colony of British Columbia (mainland), firstGovernor, James Douglas]
Generated description
James Douglas was a 19th-century colonial administrator who played a key role in shaping early British rule and development in what is now western Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Douglas
Target entity description: James Douglas was a 19th-century colonial administrator who played a key role in shaping early British rule and development in what is now western Canada.
  • A. James Douglas
    James Douglas was a key early leader and philanthropist in American public health who helped establish what became the American Cancer Society.
  • B. James Douglas
    James Douglas was a prominent Scottish knight and close ally of Robert the Bruce, renowned for his guerrilla warfare tactics against the English during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • C. James Douglas
    James Douglas was an American actor known for his film and television roles in the mid-20th century, including appearing alongside Elvis Presley in "G.I. Blues."
  • D. John Bruce
    John Bruce was the short-lived son and heir of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, and his queen consort Elizabeth de Burgh.
  • E. William Vans Murray
    William Vans Murray was an American diplomat and politician best known for helping negotiate peace with France during the Quasi-War at the turn of the 19th century.
  • 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_69c6882b3a108190b3a9eb343ae4162c completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ae74fd90819091d67eec6381d5e0 completed March 27, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cba0182c8190a30bc5e6fea4680e completed March 27, 2026, 6:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd071be4819090d6adf0e27c99d2 completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6ce04855481908bfca416fda8c218 completed March 27, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:54 p.m.