Triple

T2221908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Prestige E48158 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Alfred Borden
Alfred Borden is a brilliant but secretive Victorian-era stage magician whose obsessive rivalry and extreme dedication to his craft drive the central mystery and tragedy of "The Prestige."
E246259 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: Alfred Borden | Statement: [The Prestige, mainCharacter, Alfred Borden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Borden
Context triple: [The Prestige, mainCharacter, Alfred Borden]
  • A. Alfred Drake
    Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
  • B. Ernest Poole
    Ernest Poole was an American novelist and journalist best known for his socially conscious fiction and as the inaugural recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (now Fiction).
  • C. John Henry Patterson
    John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
  • D. Allan Pinkerton
    Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
  • E. Alfred Baldwin
    Alfred Baldwin was a British industrialist and Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament and was the father of future Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
  • 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: Alfred Borden
Triple: [The Prestige, mainCharacter, Alfred Borden]
Generated description
Alfred Borden is a brilliant but secretive Victorian-era stage magician whose obsessive rivalry and extreme dedication to his craft drive the central mystery and tragedy of "The Prestige."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Borden
Target entity description: Alfred Borden is a brilliant but secretive Victorian-era stage magician whose obsessive rivalry and extreme dedication to his craft drive the central mystery and tragedy of "The Prestige."
  • A. Alfred Drake
    Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
  • B. Ernest Poole
    Ernest Poole was an American novelist and journalist best known for his socially conscious fiction and as the inaugural recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (now Fiction).
  • C. John Henry Patterson
    John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
  • D. Allan Pinkerton
    Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
  • E. Alfred Baldwin
    Alfred Baldwin was a British industrialist and Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament and was the father of future Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
  • 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_69a88aa1ee708190862c8c378c41e9eb completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc03bfdd48190bfb96ec3e41c22dc completed March 7, 2026, 6:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae65605fa481908ac5b9d837600626 completed March 9, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae669aa29c81909770cd69d27c274c completed March 9, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae66fb7f1c8190b2bc306f06c423f1 completed March 9, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.