Triple
T7790295
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Desmarais |
E187358
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableBearer |
P458
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Paul Desmarais
Paul Desmarais was a Canadian billionaire businessman and influential financier best known for building Power Corporation of Canada into a major international conglomerate.
|
E693643
|
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: Paul Desmarais | Statement: [Desmarais, hasNotableBearer, Paul Desmarais]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Desmarais Context triple: [Desmarais, hasNotableBearer, Paul Desmarais]
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A.
Marcel Desautels
Marcel Desautels was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to higher education and business schools in Canada.
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B.
Ted Rogers
Ted Rogers was a prominent Canadian businessman and media mogul best known for founding and building Rogers Communications into one of Canada’s largest telecommunications and media companies.
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C.
Samuel Bronfman
Samuel Bronfman was a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist best known as the longtime head of the Seagram liquor empire and a leading figure in North American Jewish communal life.
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D.
Philippe Kahn
Philippe Kahn is a French technology entrepreneur and software engineer best known for founding Borland and inventing the first camera phone solution.
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E.
John Molson
John Molson was a prominent British-born Canadian entrepreneur and brewer best known for founding the Molson Brewery in Montreal.
- 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: Paul Desmarais Triple: [Desmarais, hasNotableBearer, Paul Desmarais]
Generated description
Paul Desmarais was a Canadian billionaire businessman and influential financier best known for building Power Corporation of Canada into a major international conglomerate.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Desmarais Target entity description: Paul Desmarais was a Canadian billionaire businessman and influential financier best known for building Power Corporation of Canada into a major international conglomerate.
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A.
Marcel Desautels
Marcel Desautels was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to higher education and business schools in Canada.
-
B.
Ted Rogers
Ted Rogers was a prominent Canadian businessman and media mogul best known for founding and building Rogers Communications into one of Canada’s largest telecommunications and media companies.
-
C.
Samuel Bronfman
Samuel Bronfman was a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist best known as the longtime head of the Seagram liquor empire and a leading figure in North American Jewish communal life.
-
D.
Philippe Kahn
Philippe Kahn is a French technology entrepreneur and software engineer best known for founding Borland and inventing the first camera phone solution.
-
E.
John Molson
John Molson was a prominent British-born Canadian entrepreneur and brewer best known for founding the Molson Brewery in Montreal.
- 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_69ca82af2d2c8190963861f5e0b8bf21 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cae7ea13f08190a60c5f1863bce816 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 9:15 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69caf631988481908373498aaf1ea0e8 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 10:16 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69caf820b05481908b405048c077ca2e |
completed | March 30, 2026, 10:24 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cafa052d4481908b89f6001aa6ea01 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 10:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:25 p.m.