Triple

T13770928
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gandhi, My Father E330877 entity
Predicate cinematographer P1953 FINISHED
Object David MacDonald
David MacDonald is a cinematographer known for his work on the Indian biographical drama film "Gandhi, My Father."
 E1080794 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: David MacDonald | Statement: [Gandhi, My Father, cinematographer, David MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David MacDonald
Context triple: [Gandhi, My Father, cinematographer, David MacDonald]
  • A. David John McDonald
    David John McDonald, better known by his stage name David Tennant, is a Scottish actor renowned for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running British television series Doctor Who.
  • B. Scott MacDonald
    Scott MacDonald is an American character actor known for his work in television and film, particularly in genre series and dramas.
  • C. David McMillan
    David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
  • D. Andrew McMichael
    Andrew McMichael is a person notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the surname McMichael.
  • E. Michael Dugdale
    Michael Dugdale is a central character in the British conspiracy thriller series "Utopia," depicted as a morally conflicted civil servant entangled in a vast and sinister global plot.
  • 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: David MacDonald
Triple: [Gandhi, My Father, cinematographer, David MacDonald]
Generated description
David MacDonald is a cinematographer known for his work on the Indian biographical drama film "Gandhi, My Father."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David MacDonald
Target entity description: David MacDonald is a cinematographer known for his work on the Indian biographical drama film "Gandhi, My Father."
  • A. David John McDonald
    David John McDonald, better known by his stage name David Tennant, is a Scottish actor renowned for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running British television series Doctor Who.
  • B. Scott MacDonald
    Scott MacDonald is an American character actor known for his work in television and film, particularly in genre series and dramas.
  • C. David McMillan
    David McMillan is the son of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Edwin McMillan.
  • D. Andrew McMichael
    Andrew McMichael is a person notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the surname McMichael.
  • E. Michael Dugdale
    Michael Dugdale is a central character in the British conspiracy thriller series "Utopia," depicted as a morally conflicted civil servant entangled in a vast and sinister global plot.
  • 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_69d81c583b0081909e408a17db517a21 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0235aea881909ab4c721db081b00 completed April 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcd08a3a1481908400e3e55bf38aac completed May 7, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fcd288bd5881908f6a442201c5beea completed May 7, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fcd3ad7be8819094fc71c9f44fb4cb completed May 7, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:10 p.m.