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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.