Triple
T8302739
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mayor of Burnaby |
E194385
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHolder |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William S. Paterson
William S. Paterson was a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
|
E723787
|
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 S. Paterson | Statement: [Mayor of Burnaby, officeHolder, William S. Paterson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Paterson Context triple: [Mayor of Burnaby, officeHolder, William S. Paterson]
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A.
William Bell Paterson
William Bell Paterson was the son of Scottish-born American founding father and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Paterson.
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B.
Carl E. Heastie
Carl E. Heastie is an American politician who serves as the Speaker of the New York State Assembly and represents a district in the Bronx.
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C.
Joseph Hodges Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate was a prominent American lawyer and diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
Seth Low
Seth Low was an American educator and politician who served as president of Columbia University and later as mayor of New York City.
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E.
Abraham L. Erlanger
Abraham L. Erlanger was a prominent American theatrical producer and impresario of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known as a co-founder of the powerful booking and production partnership Klaw & Erlanger.
- 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 S. Paterson Triple: [Mayor of Burnaby, officeHolder, William S. Paterson]
Generated description
William S. Paterson was a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Paterson Target entity description: William S. Paterson was a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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A.
William Bell Paterson
William Bell Paterson was the son of Scottish-born American founding father and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Paterson.
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B.
Carl E. Heastie
Carl E. Heastie is an American politician who serves as the Speaker of the New York State Assembly and represents a district in the Bronx.
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C.
Joseph Hodges Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate was a prominent American lawyer and diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
Seth Low
Seth Low was an American educator and politician who served as president of Columbia University and later as mayor of New York City.
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E.
Abraham L. Erlanger
Abraham L. Erlanger was a prominent American theatrical producer and impresario of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known as a co-founder of the powerful booking and production partnership Klaw & Erlanger.
- 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_69ca82e613e88190bf8139669bbd0d53 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb7e8a45348190a7895b33abcb64c9 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 7:58 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cd68c2a14c81908388ecdd22315390 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 6:49 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cd6d58032c8190ba99f78670924ae5 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 7:09 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cd7e5be1108190afbc65b69a7700f2 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:53 p.m.