Triple
T944312
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sandford Fleming Building |
E20377
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sandford Fleming
Sandford Fleming was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor best known for proposing worldwide standard time zones and contributing significantly to Canada's railway development.
|
E111045
|
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: Sandford Fleming | Statement: [Sandford Fleming Building, namedAfter, Sandford Fleming]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sandford Fleming Context triple: [Sandford Fleming Building, namedAfter, Sandford Fleming]
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A.
Melville James Bell
Melville James Bell was a British-born phonetician and educator best known for developing Visible Speech, a system of phonetic notation used to teach correct pronunciation.
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B.
Henry Stephenson
Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Ernest Brown
Ernest Brown was a British Liberal National politician who served as Minister of Labour in Neville Chamberlain’s government before later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.
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D.
Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
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E.
Sir Hiram Maxim
Sir Hiram Maxim was a British-American inventor best known for creating the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic firearms.
- 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: Sandford Fleming Triple: [Sandford Fleming Building, namedAfter, Sandford Fleming]
Generated description
Sandford Fleming was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor best known for proposing worldwide standard time zones and contributing significantly to Canada's railway development.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sandford Fleming Target entity description: Sandford Fleming was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor best known for proposing worldwide standard time zones and contributing significantly to Canada's railway development.
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A.
Melville James Bell
Melville James Bell was a British-born phonetician and educator best known for developing Visible Speech, a system of phonetic notation used to teach correct pronunciation.
-
B.
Henry Stephenson
Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
-
C.
Ernest Brown
Ernest Brown was a British Liberal National politician who served as Minister of Labour in Neville Chamberlain’s government before later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.
-
D.
Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
-
E.
Sir Hiram Maxim
Sir Hiram Maxim was a British-American inventor best known for creating the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic firearms.
- 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b3a3ed3881908386af140477c514 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a826e585208190bf477bf78d162e84 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 12:34 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a83365d590819085d8e92c1a69aa10 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 1:28 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a834268c388190ac725f48be8f8ea6 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 1:31 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.