Triple
T4625707
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Wicker Man (1973 film) |
E101091
|
entity |
| Predicate | character |
P662
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sergeant Neil Howie
Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
|
E459221
|
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: Sergeant Neil Howie | Statement: [The Wicker Man (1973 film), character, Sergeant Neil Howie]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Neil Howie Context triple: [The Wicker Man (1973 film), character, Sergeant Neil Howie]
-
A.
Sergeant Thomas Durrant
Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
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B.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
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C.
Lance-Corporal James Welch
Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
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D.
Sergeant-Major Hewson
Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
-
E.
Corporal Henderson
Corporal Henderson is a fictional military character typically depicted as a low-ranking non-commissioned officer, often used as a generic or placeholder name in stories or examples.
- 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: Sergeant Neil Howie Triple: [The Wicker Man (1973 film), character, Sergeant Neil Howie]
Generated description
Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Neil Howie Target entity description: Sergeant Neil Howie is the devoutly Christian Scottish police officer whose investigation of a missing girl on a remote pagan island drives the central mystery and horror of the 1973 film "The Wicker Man."
-
A.
Sergeant Thomas Durrant
Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
-
B.
Sergeant Ian McKay
Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
-
C.
Lance-Corporal James Welch
Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
-
D.
Sergeant-Major Hewson
Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
-
E.
Corporal Henderson
Corporal Henderson is a fictional military character typically depicted as a low-ranking non-commissioned officer, often used as a generic or placeholder name in stories or examples.
- 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_69bd43d0497c8190ac23c65c5804846a |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd5a08ef488190af46418229309b0f |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:30 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bdfaab30508190881828adab92ba22 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bdfb5502c48190b7679941b83e6e0c |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:58 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bdff53680c8190a62aace0f0c9f3b3 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 2:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.