Triple

T7578854
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Norman Paterson School of International Affairs E179431 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Norman Paterson
Norman Paterson was a prominent Canadian businessman and senator whose contributions to public life and philanthropy led to a major school of international affairs being named in his honor.
E675033 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: Norman Paterson | Statement: [Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, namedAfter, Norman Paterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Paterson
Context triple: [Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, namedAfter, Norman Paterson]
  • A. Georges Vanier
    Georges Vanier was a Canadian soldier, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 19th Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967.
  • B. Pierre Trudeau
    Pierre Trudeau was the charismatic 15th prime minister of Canada, known for his centralizing federal policies, promotion of bilingualism, and the patriation of the Canadian Constitution with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
  • C. Louis St. Laurent
    Louis St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957, overseeing a period of postwar prosperity and international engagement.
  • D. John Abbott
    John Abbott was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served briefly as the third Prime Minister of Canada in the late 19th century.
  • E. Wilfred Urquhart
    Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • 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: Norman Paterson
Triple: [Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, namedAfter, Norman Paterson]
Generated description
Norman Paterson was a prominent Canadian businessman and senator whose contributions to public life and philanthropy led to a major school of international affairs being named in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Paterson
Target entity description: Norman Paterson was a prominent Canadian businessman and senator whose contributions to public life and philanthropy led to a major school of international affairs being named in his honor.
  • A. Georges Vanier
    Georges Vanier was a Canadian soldier, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 19th Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967.
  • B. Pierre Trudeau
    Pierre Trudeau was the charismatic 15th prime minister of Canada, known for his centralizing federal policies, promotion of bilingualism, and the patriation of the Canadian Constitution with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
  • C. Louis St. Laurent
    Louis St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957, overseeing a period of postwar prosperity and international engagement.
  • D. John Abbott
    John Abbott was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served briefly as the third Prime Minister of Canada in the late 19th century.
  • E. Wilfred Urquhart
    Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • 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_69c69f327db881909a21ae3b156f8ded completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f97460a481909d61fba555567b66 completed March 27, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8616d87f881909fe23220dc77167c completed March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8625282bc8190bd1eecc13c1d4744 completed March 28, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8630fe8608190afc7b67d9a80240b completed March 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:51 p.m.