Triple

T15576455
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brexit: The Uncivil War E374380 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object John Heffernan
John Heffernan is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in political dramas and period pieces.
E1298784 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: John Heffernan | Statement: [Brexit: The Uncivil War, starredActor, John Heffernan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Heffernan
Context triple: [Brexit: The Uncivil War, starredActor, John Heffernan]
  • A. John Heffernan
    John Heffernan is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the cult action-thriller film "Snakes on a Plane."
  • B. Doug Heffernan
    Doug Heffernan is the lovable, blue-collar delivery driver and central character from the sitcom "The King of Queens," known for his humorous misadventures and everyday married life in Queens, New York.
  • C. John Doherty
    John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
  • D. Phil Heffernan
    Phil Heffernan is an artist best known for creating the cover artwork for the novel "Candles Burning."
  • E. Patrick O’Hearn
    Patrick O’Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for his atmospheric new-age and ambient music, as well as his work as a bassist with artists like Frank Zappa and Missing Persons.
  • 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: John Heffernan
Triple: [Brexit: The Uncivil War, starredActor, John Heffernan]
Generated description
John Heffernan is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in political dramas and period pieces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Heffernan
Target entity description: John Heffernan is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, including prominent roles in political dramas and period pieces.
  • A. John Heffernan
    John Heffernan is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the cult action-thriller film "Snakes on a Plane."
  • B. Doug Heffernan
    Doug Heffernan is the lovable, blue-collar delivery driver and central character from the sitcom "The King of Queens," known for his humorous misadventures and everyday married life in Queens, New York.
  • C. John Doherty
    John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
  • D. Phil Heffernan
    Phil Heffernan is an artist best known for creating the cover artwork for the novel "Candles Burning."
  • E. Patrick O’Hearn
    Patrick O’Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for his atmospheric new-age and ambient music, as well as his work as a bassist with artists like Frank Zappa and Missing Persons.
  • 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_69d85ccd575081908909b71a3f3e3a61 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e22c89081909b1ec0cd36a1ef45 completed April 16, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a032ff689cc81908f4944b8917ebe28 completed May 12, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0331d2b1ec81908fdd6278a4e378a4 completed May 12, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03329ea1b08190b5922485cbee83a8 completed May 12, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.