Triple

T3416243
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Time Meddler E72014 entity
Predicate directedBy P7373 FINISHED
Object Douglas Camfield
Douglas Camfield was a British television director best known for his work on numerous classic Doctor Who serials and other BBC dramas during the 1960s and 1970s.
 E454960 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: Douglas Camfield | Statement: [The Time Meddler, directedBy, Douglas Camfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas Camfield
Context triple: [The Time Meddler, directedBy, Douglas Camfield]
  • A. John Kiffmeyer
    John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
  • B. Douglas Wick
    Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
  • C. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • D. Ray Cusick
    Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • E. R. Douglas Wright
    R. Douglas Wright is a distinguished American trombonist and educator known for his prominent orchestral and conservatory teaching roles.
  • 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: Douglas Camfield
Triple: [The Time Meddler, directedBy, Douglas Camfield]
Generated description
Douglas Camfield was a British television director best known for his work on numerous classic Doctor Who serials and other BBC dramas during the 1960s and 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Douglas Camfield
Target entity description: Douglas Camfield was a British television director best known for his work on numerous classic Doctor Who serials and other BBC dramas during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • A. John Kiffmeyer
    John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
  • B. Douglas Wick
    Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
  • C. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • D. Ray Cusick
    Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • E. R. Douglas Wright
    R. Douglas Wright is a distinguished American trombonist and educator known for his prominent orchestral and conservatory teaching roles.
  • 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_69ad85ad38e48190b7660c5118a35289 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb92ae6148190958d6bb735258cab completed March 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bde0234b6481908dcf37da32cf856b completed March 21, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bde3aefee8819097c472928dca0869 completed March 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bde40688a0819098caec5dd544ed8d completed March 21, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:15 p.m.