Triple

T18623121
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tobias Menzies E455205 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander
Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall is the sadistic 18th-century British army officer and primary human antagonist in the Outlander series, notorious for his cruelty and obsession with Jamie Fraser.
E1334232 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: Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander | Statement: [Tobias Menzies, portrayed, Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander
Context triple: [Tobias Menzies, portrayed, Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander]
  • A. Colonel Colin Caine
    Colonel Colin Caine is the protagonist of the 1985 British science fiction horror film "Lifeforce," a determined military officer who leads the effort to stop an apocalyptic threat posed by energy-draining space vampires.
  • B. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
    Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is the aging Civil War veteran and itinerant news reader who becomes an unlikely guardian to a young orphaned girl in the novel and film "News of the World."
  • C. Rick Ramage
    Rick Ramage is an American screenwriter best known for his work on the supernatural horror film "Stigmata" and other genre projects in film and television.
  • D. Brian Heriot (assumed name in TV series)
    Brian Heriot is the false identity adopted by the character known as The Governor in the television series "The Walking Dead" to conceal his past and blend in with new survivors.
  • E. William Lockhart of Lee
    William Lockhart of Lee was a 17th-century Scottish soldier and diplomat who served Oliver Cromwell, notably leading English forces in continental campaigns and later acting as ambassador to France.
  • 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: Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander
Triple: [Tobias Menzies, portrayed, Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander]
Generated description
Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall is the sadistic 18th-century British army officer and primary human antagonist in the Outlander series, notorious for his cruelty and obsession with Jamie Fraser.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Outlander
Target entity description: Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall is the sadistic 18th-century British army officer and primary human antagonist in the Outlander series, notorious for his cruelty and obsession with Jamie Fraser.
  • A. Colonel Colin Caine
    Colonel Colin Caine is the protagonist of the 1985 British science fiction horror film "Lifeforce," a determined military officer who leads the effort to stop an apocalyptic threat posed by energy-draining space vampires.
  • B. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
    Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is the aging Civil War veteran and itinerant news reader who becomes an unlikely guardian to a young orphaned girl in the novel and film "News of the World."
  • C. Rick Ramage
    Rick Ramage is an American screenwriter best known for his work on the supernatural horror film "Stigmata" and other genre projects in film and television.
  • D. Brian Heriot (assumed name in TV series)
    Brian Heriot is the false identity adopted by the character known as The Governor in the television series "The Walking Dead" to conceal his past and blend in with new survivors.
  • E. William Lockhart of Lee
    William Lockhart of Lee was a 17th-century Scottish soldier and diplomat who served Oliver Cromwell, notably leading English forces in continental campaigns and later acting as ambassador to France.
  • 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_69d8d38cc7948190a55ea64e5638994e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e54f02dc248190a82341eeb2473593 completed April 19, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a050d78359c8190bba366871b5ef4e4 completed May 13, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a050e224e4881908ad55301bda567dc completed May 13, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a050ecc33e48190bc28430a6a771492 completed May 13, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.