Triple

T3884283
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The 39 Steps E92900 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
 E394448 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 Laurie | Statement: [The 39 Steps, castMember, John Laurie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Laurie
Context triple: [The 39 Steps, castMember, John Laurie]
  • A. Edward Linden
    Edward Linden was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic early Hollywood films, including the pioneering visual effects and photography of the 1933 monster movie "King Kong."
  • B. Pierce Anderson
    Pierce Anderson was an American architect best known for his work with the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, contributing to major Beaux-Arts and classical revival buildings in the early 20th century.
  • C. Charles Conrad
    Charles "Pete" Conrad was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon.
  • D. Charlie Gordon
    Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
  • E. John David Stier
    John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
  • 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 Laurie
Triple: [The 39 Steps, castMember, John Laurie]
Generated description
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Laurie
Target entity description: John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
  • A. Edward Linden
    Edward Linden was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic early Hollywood films, including the pioneering visual effects and photography of the 1933 monster movie "King Kong."
  • B. Pierce Anderson
    Pierce Anderson was an American architect best known for his work with the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, contributing to major Beaux-Arts and classical revival buildings in the early 20th century.
  • C. Charles Conrad
    Charles "Pete" Conrad was an American astronaut, naval officer, and the third person to walk on the Moon.
  • D. Charlie Gordon
    Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
  • E. John David Stier
    John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
  • 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_69aed9697de0819087c2559295ff3d12 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec9029908190a7b36a3827734db1 completed March 9, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5125bee048190ba7553797e9fd254 completed March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512e3721c8190accd26499191c153 completed March 14, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b513618b888190acda94dcc91d24d2 completed March 14, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.