Triple
T8171837
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | My Years with General Motors |
E190838
|
entity |
| Predicate | coAuthor |
P398
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John McDonald |
E190838
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John McDonald | Statement: [My Years with General Motors, coAuthor, John McDonald]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McDonald Context triple: [My Years with General Motors, coAuthor, John McDonald]
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A.
John McDonald
chosen
John McDonald was a co-author of Alfred P. Sloan Jr.’s influential business memoir "My Years with General Motors," helping to document the history and management practices of the automotive giant.
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B.
Jack McManus
Jack McManus is a British singer-songwriter and musician known for his work in pop and adult contemporary music and for his marriage to actress and singer Martine McCutcheon.
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C.
Donald MacDonald
Donald MacDonald was a Loyalist officer who led Scottish Highlander forces against Patriot militia in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Donald MacDonald
Donald MacDonald is best known as the founder of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, one of the most prominent Scottish cultural festivals in the United States.
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E.
Mack MacKenzie
Mack MacKenzie is a central fictional attorney and family man on the long-running American prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82c1c0a08190bf8692b4d91a03ca |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb48056d0c819094575090a41e0083 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 4:05 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ccbf5cfd588190b12ef9b5799ffd88 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 6:46 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:39 p.m.