Triple

T16481649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Power of Three E400332 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Douglas Mackinnon
Douglas Mackinnon is a Scottish television director best known for his work on series such as Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Good Omens.
 E1242899 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: Douglas Mackinnon | Statement: [The Power of Three, director, Douglas Mackinnon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas Mackinnon
Context triple: [The Power of Three, director, Douglas Mackinnon]
  • A. Bob MacKinnon
    Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
  • B. Don McKinnon
    Don McKinnon is a New Zealand politician and diplomat best known for serving as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and later as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • C. Stewart Mackinnon
    Stewart Mackinnon is a film and television producer known for his work on projects such as the drama "The Invisible Woman."
  • D. K. Scot Macdonald
    K. Scot Macdonald is an author whose nonfiction work on the origins and history of the Chippendales male dance troupe served as the basis for the television series "Welcome to Chippendales."
  • E. C. J. Mackenzie
    C. J. Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian engineer and administrator who played a key role in wartime scientific and nuclear research policy.
  • 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: Douglas Mackinnon
Triple: [The Power of Three, director, Douglas Mackinnon]
Generated description
Douglas Mackinnon is a Scottish television director best known for his work on series such as Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Good Omens.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas Mackinnon
Target entity description: Douglas Mackinnon is a Scottish television director best known for his work on series such as Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Good Omens.
  • A. Bob MacKinnon
    Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
  • B. Don McKinnon
    Don McKinnon is a New Zealand politician and diplomat best known for serving as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and later as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • C. Stewart Mackinnon
    Stewart Mackinnon is a film and television producer known for his work on projects such as the drama "The Invisible Woman."
  • D. K. Scot Macdonald
    K. Scot Macdonald is an author whose nonfiction work on the origins and history of the Chippendales male dance troupe served as the basis for the television series "Welcome to Chippendales."
  • E. C. J. Mackenzie
    C. J. Mackenzie was a prominent Canadian engineer and administrator who played a key role in wartime scientific and nuclear research policy.
  • 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_69d883813098819084f5409539723b59 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32e02b2c881909576a23bfbd3123c completed April 18, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00d449f708819095f83682fa03e3bf completed May 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d53422408190ba91624194333c13 completed May 10, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d5adee908190a13bfc765e7c8f06 completed May 10, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.