Triple

T20620319
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David John McDonald E506681 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object The Doctor
The Doctor is the time-traveling alien protagonist of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, known for regenerating into new forms and personalities.
E90985 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: The Doctor | Statement: [David John McDonald, portrayed, The Doctor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Doctor
Context triple: [David John McDonald, portrayed, The Doctor]
  • A. The Doctor
    The Doctor is the time-traveling alien protagonist of the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," known for regenerating into new forms and protecting the universe from various threats.
  • B. The Doctor
    The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film starring William Hurt as a successful but emotionally distant surgeon who reevaluates his life and relationships after becoming a patient himself.
  • C. The Doctor
    The Doctor is a minor but symbolically significant character in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," representing the harsh reality of institutionalization and the collapse of Blanche DuBois's fragile world.
  • D. The Doctor
    The Doctor is the legendary Italian motorcycle racer widely regarded as one of the greatest MotoGP riders of all time.
  • E. The Doctor
    The Doctor is the Emergency Medical Hologram aboard the starship Voyager, an artificial intelligence who evolves into a sentient, multifaceted crew member in Star Trek: Voyager.
  • 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: The Doctor
Triple: [David John McDonald, portrayed, The Doctor]
Generated description
The Doctor is the time-traveling alien protagonist of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, known for regenerating into new forms and personalities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Doctor
Target entity description: The Doctor is the time-traveling alien protagonist of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, known for regenerating into new forms and personalities.
  • A. The Doctor chosen
    The Doctor is the time-traveling alien protagonist of the long-running British science fiction series "Doctor Who," known for regenerating into new forms and protecting the universe from various threats.
  • B. The Doctor
    The Doctor is the Emergency Medical Hologram aboard the starship Voyager, an artificial intelligence who evolves into a sentient, multifaceted crew member in Star Trek: Voyager.
  • C. The Doctor
    The Doctor is the legendary Italian motorcycle racer widely regarded as one of the greatest MotoGP riders of all time.
  • D. The Doctor
    The Doctor is a central figure in Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist play "Exit the King," serving as a darkly comic embodiment of rational authority and the inevitability of death.
  • E. The Doctor
    The Doctor is a minor but symbolically significant character in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," representing the harsh reality of institutionalization and the collapse of Blanche DuBois's fragile world.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e0b4bc90988190ac360aaf645efc1d completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6abe0e22c81909f6efe21518e33f0 completed April 20, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08bb1776588190923236057cfd1b8f completed May 16, 2026, 6:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08bdd076f08190a6663d891d503a29 completed May 16, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08be4eddbc8190b02a5b8b96ee6a29 completed May 16, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:42 a.m.