Triple

T14476435
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Water Babies (1978 film) E358982 entity
Predicate hasCastMember P2308 FINISHED
Object Michael Balfour
Michael Balfour was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s.
E1106238 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: Michael Balfour | Statement: [The Water Babies (1978 film), hasCastMember, Michael Balfour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Balfour
Context triple: [The Water Babies (1978 film), hasCastMember, Michael Balfour]
  • A. Leo F. Drummond
    Leo F. Drummond is a high-powered, ruthless attorney who serves as the chief legal antagonist in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Rainmaker."
  • B. Roderick MacLeod
    Roderick MacLeod is a Scottish surname bearer known from various historical and contemporary figures, often associated with the Highland clan MacLeod.
  • C. Charles Dunstone
    Charles Dunstone is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of the mobile phone retail giant Carphone Warehouse.
  • D. George Murchison
    George Murchison is a wealthy, educated suitor of Beneatha Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun," representing assimilationist values and middle-class Black respectability.
  • E. Charles Dunham
    Charles Dunham is a fictional character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," involved in the social and romantic entanglements that drive the story’s 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: Michael Balfour
Triple: [The Water Babies (1978 film), hasCastMember, Michael Balfour]
Generated description
Michael Balfour was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Balfour
Target entity description: Michael Balfour was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s.
  • A. Leo F. Drummond
    Leo F. Drummond is a high-powered, ruthless attorney who serves as the chief legal antagonist in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Rainmaker."
  • B. Roderick MacLeod
    Roderick MacLeod is a Scottish surname bearer known from various historical and contemporary figures, often associated with the Highland clan MacLeod.
  • C. Charles Dunstone
    Charles Dunstone is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of the mobile phone retail giant Carphone Warehouse.
  • D. George Murchison
    George Murchison is a wealthy, educated suitor of Beneatha Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s play "A Raisin in the Sun," representing assimilationist values and middle-class Black respectability.
  • E. Charles Dunham
    Charles Dunham is a fictional character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," involved in the social and romantic entanglements that drive the story’s 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_69d827966698819082e140837737501d completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de9248edb48190a74eb032aeaac027 completed April 14, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd8aaaf74481909aeda3627bea39a9 completed May 8, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd8bd70488819083f40c38575f3071 completed May 8, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd8d4f2e848190a3c4c423c0ffed50 completed May 8, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:20 a.m.