Triple

T7622622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canal Commissioner of New York E172536 entity
Predicate officeHeldBy P537 FINISHED
Object William J. McAlpine
William J. McAlpine was a 19th-century American civil engineer and public official known for his leadership in the development and administration of New York’s canal system.
E719998 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: William J. McAlpine | Statement: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, William J. McAlpine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. McAlpine
Context triple: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, William J. McAlpine]
  • A. George Macalister
    George Macalister was a 19th-century Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland.
  • B. Wilfred J. McNeil
    Wilfred J. McNeil was an American government official who served in senior defense-related administrative roles, including leadership of the U.S. Munitions Board during the mid-20th century.
  • C. James C. Adamson
    James C. Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and contributed to both spaceflight operations and aerospace management.
  • D. William Archibald
    William Archibald was a Trinidad-born American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage play "The Innocents," which he adapted from Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw."
  • E. Carl J. Kilpatrick
    Carl J. Kilpatrick is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Kilpatrick, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • 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: William J. McAlpine
Triple: [Canal Commissioner of New York, officeHeldBy, William J. McAlpine]
Generated description
William J. McAlpine was a 19th-century American civil engineer and public official known for his leadership in the development and administration of New York’s canal system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. McAlpine
Target entity description: William J. McAlpine was a 19th-century American civil engineer and public official known for his leadership in the development and administration of New York’s canal system.
  • A. George Macalister
    George Macalister was a 19th-century Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland.
  • B. Wilfred J. McNeil
    Wilfred J. McNeil was an American government official who served in senior defense-related administrative roles, including leadership of the U.S. Munitions Board during the mid-20th century.
  • C. James C. Adamson
    James C. Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and contributed to both spaceflight operations and aerospace management.
  • D. William Archibald
    William Archibald was a Trinidad-born American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage play "The Innocents," which he adapted from Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw."
  • E. Carl J. Kilpatrick
    Carl J. Kilpatrick is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Kilpatrick, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • 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_69c699506b308190826894dab1d9ea86 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa63e66081908ba34dd4483de7fe completed March 27, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd336af7c48190956add895fff9c21 completed April 1, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd36ecc1d88190a978f1d51b0e1382 completed April 1, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4e7822e48190bb573162f224bd8c completed April 1, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:56 p.m.