Triple

T1801200
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Early Bird E39721 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as the pompous floorwalker Captain Peacock in the long-running British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
E280622 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: Frank Thornton | Statement: [The Early Bird, castMember, Frank Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Thornton
Context triple: [The Early Bird, castMember, Frank Thornton]
  • A. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • B. Frank Wead
    Frank Wead was an American naval aviator-turned-screenwriter known for his aviation-themed stories and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • C. John Bluthal
    John Bluthal was a Polish-born British actor best known for his comic roles in British television and film, including his memorable performance in the sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
  • D. Philip Smith
    Philip Smith is a member of the family of Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
  • E. Charles Downing
    Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
  • 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: Frank Thornton
Triple: [The Early Bird, castMember, Frank Thornton]
Generated description
Frank Thornton was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as the pompous floorwalker Captain Peacock in the long-running British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Thornton
Target entity description: Frank Thornton was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as the pompous floorwalker Captain Peacock in the long-running British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
  • A. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • B. Frank Wead
    Frank Wead was an American naval aviator-turned-screenwriter known for his aviation-themed stories and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • C. John Bluthal
    John Bluthal was a Polish-born British actor best known for his comic roles in British television and film, including his memorable performance in the sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
  • D. Philip Smith
    Philip Smith is a member of the family of Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
  • E. Charles Downing
    Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
  • 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_69a88632aa588190ba3978fde0db5bbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa656ad5d4819090e677ad137b0cd1 completed March 6, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af8336f98c8190949c0145d2d31a8f completed March 10, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af840b2fb881909755b06563b8c561 completed March 10, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af8487bcac819085b6f5827a48696a completed March 10, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.