Triple

T1801388
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Press for Time E39725 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Norman Shields
Norman Shields is the bumbling newspaper reporter portrayed by Norman Wisdom in the 1966 British comedy film "Press for Time."
E230363 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: Norman Shields | Statement: [Press for Time, mainCharacter, Norman Shields]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Shields
Context triple: [Press for Time, mainCharacter, Norman Shields]
  • A. Richard Stolley
    Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • B. Roger E. Broggie
    Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
  • C. Larry Shields
    Larry Shields was a businessman best known for owning the Minnesota Muskies franchise in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • E. Harold Shannon
    Harold Shannon was a Canadian sports executive known for being one of the owners involved with the Toronto Huskies professional basketball team in the 1940s.
  • 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: Norman Shields
Triple: [Press for Time, mainCharacter, Norman Shields]
Generated description
Norman Shields is the bumbling newspaper reporter portrayed by Norman Wisdom in the 1966 British comedy film "Press for Time."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Shields
Target entity description: Norman Shields is the bumbling newspaper reporter portrayed by Norman Wisdom in the 1966 British comedy film "Press for Time."
  • A. Richard Stolley
    Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
  • B. Roger E. Broggie
    Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
  • C. Larry Shields
    Larry Shields was a businessman best known for owning the Minnesota Muskies franchise in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • E. Harold Shannon
    Harold Shannon was a Canadian sports executive known for being one of the owners involved with the Toronto Huskies professional basketball team in the 1940s.
  • 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_69ae26f2c7a48190a091e0e334845413 completed March 9, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae277895488190ae4a2337cf2ae915 completed March 9, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae27e7113081909835657bfff3f9e8 completed March 9, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.