Triple

T10833009
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Victoria Cross to Sergeant Ian McKay E255671 entity
Predicate recipient P108 FINISHED
Object Ian McKay
Ian McKay was a British Army sergeant posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
 E895931 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: Ian McKay | Statement: [Victoria Cross to Sergeant Ian McKay, recipient, Ian McKay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ian McKay
Context triple: [Victoria Cross to Sergeant Ian McKay, recipient, Ian McKay]
  • A. Patrick Noyce
    Patrick Noyce is the son of Australian film director Phillip Noyce.
  • B. Bruce Gilliat
    Bruce Gilliat is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Alexa Internet, a pioneering web traffic analysis and ranking service.
  • C. Ronald Neame
    Ronald Neame was a British film director, producer, and cinematographer known for works such as "The Poseidon Adventure" and collaborations with Alec Guinness.
  • D. Tony Richardson
    Tony Richardson was a British film and theatre director associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "Tom Jones" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
  • E. J. Lee Thompson
    J. Lee Thompson was a British film director known for a wide range of popular movies, including war epics, thrillers, and collaborations with major Hollywood stars.
  • 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: Ian McKay
Triple: [Victoria Cross to Sergeant Ian McKay, recipient, Ian McKay]
Generated description
Ian McKay was a British Army sergeant posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ian McKay
Target entity description: Ian McKay was a British Army sergeant posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
  • A. Patrick Noyce
    Patrick Noyce is the son of Australian film director Phillip Noyce.
  • B. Bruce Gilliat
    Bruce Gilliat is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Alexa Internet, a pioneering web traffic analysis and ranking service.
  • C. Ronald Neame
    Ronald Neame was a British film director, producer, and cinematographer known for works such as "The Poseidon Adventure" and collaborations with Alec Guinness.
  • D. Tony Richardson
    Tony Richardson was a British film and theatre director associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "Tom Jones" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
  • E. J. Lee Thompson
    J. Lee Thompson was a British film director known for a wide range of popular movies, including war epics, thrillers, and collaborations with major Hollywood stars.
  • 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_69d6aa81a5d08190aa86689061d1ddd2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7442439dc8190af59f9c8d0637c01 completed April 9, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e23b7578688190975c087d28808be5 completed April 17, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e2453f6f008190847298f4006290f7 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e288b1d64c8190b31313634b706d0a completed April 17, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:19 p.m.