Triple

T11133849
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brendan McCarthy E263356 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Best of Milligan & McCarthy
The Best of Milligan & McCarthy is a collection showcasing the surreal, darkly comic, and visually inventive collaborative comics of writer Peter Milligan and artist Brendan McCarthy.
E907895 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: The Best of Milligan & McCarthy | Statement: [Brendan McCarthy, notableWork, The Best of Milligan & McCarthy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Best of Milligan & McCarthy
Context triple: [Brendan McCarthy, notableWork, The Best of Milligan & McCarthy]
  • A. The Best Damn Band in the Land
    The Best Damn Band in the Land is the famed marching band of The Ohio State University, renowned for its intricate field formations, powerful brass sound, and iconic "Script Ohio" performances.
  • B. The Merry Macs
    The Merry Macs were an American close-harmony vocal group popular in the 1930s and 1940s, known for their smooth blend and appearances in films and on radio.
  • C. The McGarrigle Hour
    The McGarrigle Hour is a 1998 folk album and family collaboration by Kate and Anna McGarrigle featuring performances with their children and close musical relatives.
  • D. Diary of a Mad Band
    Diary of a Mad Band is the second studio album by American R&B group Jodeci, known for its blend of new jack swing and soulful ballads that helped define early 1990s R&B.
  • E. The Munchkin Chorus
    The Munchkin Chorus is the ensemble of Munchkin characters in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," known for singing the celebratory number "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead."
  • 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: The Best of Milligan & McCarthy
Triple: [Brendan McCarthy, notableWork, The Best of Milligan & McCarthy]
Generated description
The Best of Milligan & McCarthy is a collection showcasing the surreal, darkly comic, and visually inventive collaborative comics of writer Peter Milligan and artist Brendan McCarthy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Best of Milligan & McCarthy
Target entity description: The Best of Milligan & McCarthy is a collection showcasing the surreal, darkly comic, and visually inventive collaborative comics of writer Peter Milligan and artist Brendan McCarthy.
  • A. The Best Damn Band in the Land
    The Best Damn Band in the Land is the famed marching band of The Ohio State University, renowned for its intricate field formations, powerful brass sound, and iconic "Script Ohio" performances.
  • B. The Merry Macs
    The Merry Macs were an American close-harmony vocal group popular in the 1930s and 1940s, known for their smooth blend and appearances in films and on radio.
  • C. The McGarrigle Hour
    The McGarrigle Hour is a 1998 folk album and family collaboration by Kate and Anna McGarrigle featuring performances with their children and close musical relatives.
  • D. Diary of a Mad Band
    Diary of a Mad Band is the second studio album by American R&B group Jodeci, known for its blend of new jack swing and soulful ballads that helped define early 1990s R&B.
  • E. The Munchkin Chorus
    The Munchkin Chorus is the ensemble of Munchkin characters in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," known for singing the celebratory number "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead."
  • 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_69d6aa9c0ba08190bbd19c217489b755 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8347a248190837e8c26f25f553a completed April 9, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e441f00d7c8190a8fe8e0c1169e6b0 completed April 19, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e44c09163481909d6a469b1e50b6ff completed April 19, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4519f4d408190be9863c72006ecad completed April 19, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:28 p.m.