Triple

T1442486
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aston Villa E31104 entity
Predicate notablePlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath is a former Irish central defender widely regarded as one of Aston Villa’s greatest players and one of the finest defenders of his generation.
E165372 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: Paul McGrath | Statement: [Aston Villa, notablePlayer, Paul McGrath]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul McGrath
Context triple: [Aston Villa, notablePlayer, Paul McGrath]
  • A. Paul McGinness
    Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
  • B. Bill Curbishley
    Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
  • C. Jack Cummins
    Jack Cummins is an American sports executive best known as the founder of the National Independent Soccer Association, a professional third-division soccer league in the United States.
  • D. Athole Shearer
    Athole Shearer was a Canadian-born actress and the younger sister of Hollywood star Norma Shearer, known for her brief film career and marriage to director Howard Hawks.
  • E. Seamus Costello
    Seamus Costello was an Irish republican socialist leader and militant who played a key role in the split from the Official IRA and became a founding figure of the Irish National Liberation Army.
  • 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: Paul McGrath
Triple: [Aston Villa, notablePlayer, Paul McGrath]
Generated description
Paul McGrath is a former Irish central defender widely regarded as one of Aston Villa’s greatest players and one of the finest defenders of his generation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul McGrath
Target entity description: Paul McGrath is a former Irish central defender widely regarded as one of Aston Villa’s greatest players and one of the finest defenders of his generation.
  • A. Paul McGinness
    Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
  • B. Bill Curbishley
    Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
  • C. Jack Cummins
    Jack Cummins is an American sports executive best known as the founder of the National Independent Soccer Association, a professional third-division soccer league in the United States.
  • D. Athole Shearer
    Athole Shearer was a Canadian-born actress and the younger sister of Hollywood star Norma Shearer, known for her brief film career and marriage to director Howard Hawks.
  • E. Seamus Costello
    Seamus Costello was an Irish republican socialist leader and militant who played a key role in the split from the Official IRA and became a founding figure of the Irish National Liberation Army.
  • 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_69a4991633388190a4d61b5a98aa407a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5320728819095d9ed2439fa7d31 completed March 1, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08be450c8190bc0b8a69733a0bd4 completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad09823ce481908b5db3ee9ebd1a88 completed March 8, 2026, 5:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0a8f17888190913c06641a6ac060 completed March 8, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.