Triple

T19024547
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brief Encounter E465573 entity
Predicate characterPortrayed P1507 FINISHED
Object Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey
Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey is the male lead in the classic British romantic drama "Brief Encounter," portraying a married doctor who falls into a poignant, forbidden love affair.
E1354408 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: Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey | Statement: [Brief Encounter, characterPortrayed, Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey
Context triple: [Brief Encounter, characterPortrayed, Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey]
  • A. Michael Caine as Dr. Robert Elliott
    Michael Caine as Dr. Robert Elliott is the central, psychologically complex psychiatrist character he portrays in Brian De Palma’s 1980 thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
  • B. Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane
    Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane is the central male character in the 1934 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel "The Painted Veil," portraying a reserved British doctor whose troubled marriage unfolds against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in China.
  • C. Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead
    Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead is the portrayal of a young, aristocratic British Army officer in the 1964 war film "Zulu," which helped launch Caine to international stardom.
  • D. Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey
    Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey is the central prosecuting attorney character in the 1947 film noir legal drama "Boomerang!"
  • E. Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
    Nicholas Courtney’s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is a stalwart, no-nonsense UNIT commander and one of the Doctor’s most enduring human allies in the classic Doctor Who series.
  • 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: Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey
Triple: [Brief Encounter, characterPortrayed, Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey]
Generated description
Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey is the male lead in the classic British romantic drama "Brief Encounter," portraying a married doctor who falls into a poignant, forbidden love affair.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey
Target entity description: Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey is the male lead in the classic British romantic drama "Brief Encounter," portraying a married doctor who falls into a poignant, forbidden love affair.
  • A. Michael Caine as Dr. Robert Elliott
    Michael Caine as Dr. Robert Elliott is the central, psychologically complex psychiatrist character he portrays in Brian De Palma’s 1980 thriller film "Dressed to Kill."
  • B. Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane
    Herbert Marshall as Dr. Walter Fane is the central male character in the 1934 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel "The Painted Veil," portraying a reserved British doctor whose troubled marriage unfolds against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in China.
  • C. Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead
    Michael Caine as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead is the portrayal of a young, aristocratic British Army officer in the 1964 war film "Zulu," which helped launch Caine to international stardom.
  • D. Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey
    Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey is the central prosecuting attorney character in the 1947 film noir legal drama "Boomerang!"
  • E. Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
    Nicholas Courtney’s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is a stalwart, no-nonsense UNIT commander and one of the Doctor’s most enduring human allies in the classic Doctor Who series.
  • 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_69d8dd025c188190a1d81f5b4ec7e2c6 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d6e166088190937ef19739437f7c completed April 20, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05be56412081909ff1053248e7145a completed May 14, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05bfc05b70819081466bad1b6fdda1 completed May 14, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05c0283b08819089ad422861efbcbb completed May 14, 2026, 12:29 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:02 p.m.