Triple

T2182099
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernard Hill E49066 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Captain Edward Smith
Captain Edward Smith was the British sea captain best known for commanding the RMS Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912.
E243213 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: Captain Edward Smith | Statement: [Bernard Hill, portrayed, Captain Edward Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Edward Smith
Context triple: [Bernard Hill, portrayed, Captain Edward Smith]
  • A. Captain Lemuel Moody
    Captain Lemuel Moody was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur from Portland, Maine, best known for commissioning and overseeing the construction of the historic Portland Observatory.
  • B. Captain Richard Pearson
    Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Captain William Renton
    Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
  • D. Tobias Furneaux
    Tobias Furneaux was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for accompanying James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific.
  • E. Captain Ed Mercer
    Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • 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: Captain Edward Smith
Triple: [Bernard Hill, portrayed, Captain Edward Smith]
Generated description
Captain Edward Smith was the British sea captain best known for commanding the RMS Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Edward Smith
Target entity description: Captain Edward Smith was the British sea captain best known for commanding the RMS Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912.
  • A. Captain Lemuel Moody
    Captain Lemuel Moody was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur from Portland, Maine, best known for commissioning and overseeing the construction of the historic Portland Observatory.
  • B. Captain Richard Pearson
    Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Captain William Renton
    Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
  • D. Tobias Furneaux
    Tobias Furneaux was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for accompanying James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific.
  • E. Captain Ed Mercer
    Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • 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_69a88aa72d348190a9544bb5b8a4e71d completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbef1f8c0819084da6002035bbf93 completed March 7, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5da786e48190896cae8fdcee3d83 completed March 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e30a69c8190a3f77e784401f671 completed March 9, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5ea7909c8190a93d87a5d07b84d4 completed March 9, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.