Triple
T9490844
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Canadian Pacific Railway |
E228883
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
George Stephen
George Stephen was a Scottish-Canadian businessman and financier who became the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway and played a key role in building Canada's first transcontinental rail line.
|
E801842
|
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: George Stephen | Statement: [Canadian Pacific Railway, founder, George Stephen]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Stephen Context triple: [Canadian Pacific Railway, founder, George Stephen]
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A.
Wilfred Urquhart
Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
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B.
John Kerr
John Kerr was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including notable performances in dramas and thrillers.
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C.
John Kerr
John Kerr was a Scottish physicist best known for discovering the Kerr effect, a phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied electric field.
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D.
James Ramsay
James Ramsay was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and prominent British abolitionist who campaigned vigorously against the transatlantic slave trade.
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E.
Richard Lloyd George
Richard Lloyd George was a British peer and politician, best known as the son of former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and for serving as the 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor.
- 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: George Stephen Triple: [Canadian Pacific Railway, founder, George Stephen]
Generated description
George Stephen was a Scottish-Canadian businessman and financier who became the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway and played a key role in building Canada's first transcontinental rail line.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Stephen Target entity description: George Stephen was a Scottish-Canadian businessman and financier who became the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway and played a key role in building Canada's first transcontinental rail line.
-
A.
Wilfred Urquhart
Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
-
B.
John Kerr
John Kerr was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including notable performances in dramas and thrillers.
-
C.
John Kerr
John Kerr was a Scottish physicist best known for discovering the Kerr effect, a phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied electric field.
-
D.
James Ramsay
James Ramsay was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and prominent British abolitionist who campaigned vigorously against the transatlantic slave trade.
-
E.
Richard Lloyd George
Richard Lloyd George was a British peer and politician, best known as the son of former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and for serving as the 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor.
- 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_69ca847424f081908180305555139f7a |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd80c89ec48190a2ad49394cab9c56 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 8:32 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d12d27c0808190baf5ae04a1b915bb |
completed | April 4, 2026, 3:24 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d12da44d7c8190afb11ae3009a79e5 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 3:26 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d12e1459348190aed583b2364a53dd |
completed | April 4, 2026, 3:28 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:55 p.m.