Triple

T14286609
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sound of Drums E354191 entity
Predicate portraysCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness E88094 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness | Statement: [The Sound of Drums, portraysCharacter, John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness
Context triple: [The Sound of Drums, portraysCharacter, John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness]
  • A. Captain Jack Harkness chosen
    Captain Jack Harkness is a charismatic, time-traveling former Time Agent and immortal leader of the Torchwood Institute in the Doctor Who universe.
  • B. Alfred Molina as Kenneth Halliwell
    Alfred Molina as Kenneth Halliwell refers to the actor’s acclaimed portrayal of playwright Joe Orton’s troubled lover and eventual killer in the biographical film "Prick Up Your Ears."
  • C. Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
    Nicholas Courtney’s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is a stalwart, no-nonsense UNIT commander and one of the Doctor’s most enduring human allies in the classic Doctor Who series.
  • D. John Lethbridge
    John Lethbridge was the father of Claire Clairmont, the stepsister of Mary Shelley and a member of the literary circle surrounding Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.
  • E. Eighth Doctor
    The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor from the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," portrayed by Paul McGann and known for bridging the classic and modern eras of the show.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d8278e17088190b328c5a9d4be74ff completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de697ef40c8190bea37724b28c2e99 completed April 14, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd3d1c4d988190b595e6a33ef96c28 completed May 8, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:11 a.m.