Triple

T3568944
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matthew Macfadyen E75520 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object John Birt in Frost/Nixon
John Birt in Frost/Nixon is the dramatized version of the real-life former BBC Director-General who serves as a key advisor and strategist to David Frost during his televised interviews with Richard Nixon.
E369906 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: John Birt in Frost/Nixon | Statement: [Matthew Macfadyen, portrayed, John Birt in Frost/Nixon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Birt in Frost/Nixon
Context triple: [Matthew Macfadyen, portrayed, John Birt in Frost/Nixon]
  • A. Peter Morgan
    Peter Morgan is a British screenwriter and playwright best known for his political and historical dramas, including works like The Queen and the series The Crown.
  • B. Walter Burns
    Walter Burns is the fast-talking, manipulative newspaper editor at the center of the classic newsroom comedy "The Front Page."
  • C. Jack Whitaker
    Jack Whitaker was an American sportscaster and television host known for his eloquent commentary on major events, including NFL games, golf tournaments, and horse racing.
  • D. Mike Wallace
    Mike Wallace was a prominent American broadcast journalist best known as a hard-hitting correspondent on the television news magazine "60 Minutes."
  • E. Lou Grant
    Lou Grant is a gruff but warm-hearted television news producer, portrayed by Ed Asner, who became one of American TV’s most iconic newsroom bosses and later headlined his own dramatic spin-off series.
  • 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: John Birt in Frost/Nixon
Triple: [Matthew Macfadyen, portrayed, John Birt in Frost/Nixon]
Generated description
John Birt in Frost/Nixon is the dramatized version of the real-life former BBC Director-General who serves as a key advisor and strategist to David Frost during his televised interviews with Richard Nixon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Birt in Frost/Nixon
Target entity description: John Birt in Frost/Nixon is the dramatized version of the real-life former BBC Director-General who serves as a key advisor and strategist to David Frost during his televised interviews with Richard Nixon.
  • A. Peter Morgan
    Peter Morgan is a British screenwriter and playwright best known for his political and historical dramas, including works like The Queen and the series The Crown.
  • B. Walter Burns
    Walter Burns is the fast-talking, manipulative newspaper editor at the center of the classic newsroom comedy "The Front Page."
  • C. Jack Whitaker
    Jack Whitaker was an American sportscaster and television host known for his eloquent commentary on major events, including NFL games, golf tournaments, and horse racing.
  • D. Mike Wallace
    Mike Wallace was a prominent American broadcast journalist best known as a hard-hitting correspondent on the television news magazine "60 Minutes."
  • E. Lou Grant
    Lou Grant is a gruff but warm-hearted television news producer, portrayed by Ed Asner, who became one of American TV’s most iconic newsroom bosses and later headlined his own dramatic spin-off series.
  • 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_69ad85d512708190829c8b2d3a2ccfb8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc0c083ac8190a71cd9ede2114cac completed March 8, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3bbb3383c8190b14845a7de162502 completed March 13, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3bc62e1b481908310d7af56fb4889 completed March 13, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3f5b2fdcc8190842d2d7bd09c65c4 completed March 13, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.