Triple

T21679889
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject You Can’t Do That on Television E535071 entity
Predicate featuredPerformer P17435 FINISHED
Object Alasdair Gillis
Alasdair Gillis is a Canadian actor best known for being one of the teen cast members on the sketch comedy television series "You Can’t Do That on Television."
E1499024 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: Alasdair Gillis | Statement: [You Can’t Do That on Television, featuredPerformer, Alasdair Gillis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alasdair Gillis
Context triple: [You Can’t Do That on Television, featuredPerformer, Alasdair Gillis]
  • A. Alasdair Roberts
    Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician and singer-songwriter known for his intricate guitar work, traditional balladry, and releases on independent labels such as Drag City.
  • B. Alasdair Lamont
    Alasdair Lamont is a notable individual bearing the surname Lamont, recognized as a distinguished representative of the Lamont family name.
  • C. Alasdair McGregor
    Alasdair McGregor is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname McGregor.
  • D. Iain Fullarton
    Iain Fullarton is a former Scottish international rugby union player who primarily played as a lock.
  • E. Gavin Douglas
    Gavin Douglas was a prominent early 16th-century Scottish poet and bishop, best known for his Middle Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid, the Eneados.
  • 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: Alasdair Gillis
Triple: [You Can’t Do That on Television, featuredPerformer, Alasdair Gillis]
Generated description
Alasdair Gillis is a Canadian actor best known for being one of the teen cast members on the sketch comedy television series "You Can’t Do That on Television."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alasdair Gillis
Target entity description: Alasdair Gillis is a Canadian actor best known for being one of the teen cast members on the sketch comedy television series "You Can’t Do That on Television."
  • A. Alasdair Roberts
    Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician and singer-songwriter known for his intricate guitar work, traditional balladry, and releases on independent labels such as Drag City.
  • B. Alasdair Lamont
    Alasdair Lamont is a notable individual bearing the surname Lamont, recognized as a distinguished representative of the Lamont family name.
  • C. Alasdair McGregor
    Alasdair McGregor is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname McGregor.
  • D. Iain Fullarton
    Iain Fullarton is a former Scottish international rugby union player who primarily played as a lock.
  • E. Gavin Douglas
    Gavin Douglas was a prominent early 16th-century Scottish poet and bishop, best known for his Middle Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid, the Eneados.
  • 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_69e0c469b6ec8190aee4cadd1527db91 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef8a12adf08190b9b450eb26a1f33c completed April 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a2ec205108190836be37777c7befc completed May 17, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a2f8815508190bba1c8887d70f1ef completed May 17, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a2fe468ac81908b591a086eade238 completed May 17, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:43 p.m.