Triple

T16697974
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Gusher E405765 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Wallace MacDonald
Wallace MacDonald was a Canadian-born film producer and former silent-era actor who became known for his work on numerous low-budget Hollywood features in the mid-20th century.
E1229281 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: Wallace MacDonald | Statement: [The Big Gusher, producer, Wallace MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wallace MacDonald
Context triple: [The Big Gusher, producer, Wallace MacDonald]
  • A. Iain Macmillan
    Iain Macmillan was a Scottish photographer best known for shooting iconic album covers, most famously the Beatles’ Abbey Road.
  • B. Alastair William Mackintosh
    Alastair William Mackintosh was a British businessman best known for being the second husband of silent film star Constance Talmadge.
  • C. Robert Lorimer
    Robert Lorimer was a prominent early 20th-century Scottish architect and designer known for his refined restoration work and contributions to the Arts and Crafts movement.
  • D. Donald James Mackintosh
    Donald James Mackintosh was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross honored for his bravery during World War I.
  • E. Jack MacDonald
    Jack MacDonald was a Canadian communist activist and political organizer best known as a founding figure and early leader of the Communist Party of Canada.
  • 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: Wallace MacDonald
Triple: [The Big Gusher, producer, Wallace MacDonald]
Generated description
Wallace MacDonald was a Canadian-born film producer and former silent-era actor who became known for his work on numerous low-budget Hollywood features in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wallace MacDonald
Target entity description: Wallace MacDonald was a Canadian-born film producer and former silent-era actor who became known for his work on numerous low-budget Hollywood features in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Iain Macmillan
    Iain Macmillan was a Scottish photographer best known for shooting iconic album covers, most famously the Beatles’ Abbey Road.
  • B. Alastair William Mackintosh
    Alastair William Mackintosh was a British businessman best known for being the second husband of silent film star Constance Talmadge.
  • C. Robert Lorimer
    Robert Lorimer was a prominent early 20th-century Scottish architect and designer known for his refined restoration work and contributions to the Arts and Crafts movement.
  • D. Donald James Mackintosh
    Donald James Mackintosh was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross honored for his bravery during World War I.
  • E. Jack MacDonald
    Jack MacDonald was a Canadian communist activist and political organizer best known as a founding figure and early leader of the Communist Party of Canada.
  • 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_69d8838db21081909589220fd71440a4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3832f550c8190bf7514d4611dec6a completed April 18, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00919ee61c81909928dd26270e9614 completed May 10, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00925fda608190b3674bd5e9ca6bf5 completed May 10, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00939075d88190a63cdd942eb3fea8 completed May 10, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:19 a.m.