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.
  • 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
  • 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.