Triple

T4722195
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spartacus: War of the Damned E104793 entity
Predicate star P23405 FINISHED
Object Simon Merrells
Simon Merrells is a British actor best known for his prominent role in the historical drama television series "Spartacus: War of the Damned."
E468736 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: Simon Merrells | Statement: [Spartacus: War of the Damned, star, Simon Merrells]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Simon Merrells
Context triple: [Spartacus: War of the Damned, star, Simon Merrells]
  • A. Graeme Revell
    Graeme Revell is a New Zealand-born composer best known for his atmospheric film scores across genres including horror, action, and science fiction.
  • B. Gavin Millar
    Gavin Millar was a Scottish film and television director, critic, and producer known for his work on British dramas and literary adaptations.
  • C. Andrew Rennison
    Andrew Rennison is a British public official known for serving as the inaugural Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of CCTV and related surveillance technologies in the UK.
  • D. Peter Sissons
    Peter Sissons was a prominent British journalist and television newsreader best known for presenting major news programmes on the BBC and ITN.
  • E. Ian Bryce
    Ian Bryce is a British film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and the Transformers 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: Simon Merrells
Triple: [Spartacus: War of the Damned, star, Simon Merrells]
Generated description
Simon Merrells is a British actor best known for his prominent role in the historical drama television series "Spartacus: War of the Damned."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Simon Merrells
Target entity description: Simon Merrells is a British actor best known for his prominent role in the historical drama television series "Spartacus: War of the Damned."
  • A. Graeme Revell
    Graeme Revell is a New Zealand-born composer best known for his atmospheric film scores across genres including horror, action, and science fiction.
  • B. Gavin Millar
    Gavin Millar was a Scottish film and television director, critic, and producer known for his work on British dramas and literary adaptations.
  • C. Andrew Rennison
    Andrew Rennison is a British public official known for serving as the inaugural Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of CCTV and related surveillance technologies in the UK.
  • D. Peter Sissons
    Peter Sissons was a prominent British journalist and television newsreader best known for presenting major news programmes on the BBC and ITN.
  • E. Ian Bryce
    Ian Bryce is a British film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and the Transformers 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_69bd43ed84648190ae0b7ee8e8d00482 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd642b82008190bb70dd60a4149502 completed March 20, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43a4c23481908c60a0a6ec0226b2 completed March 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be450d99c88190b63ec471a57c3c0f completed March 21, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be45a1d8b88190a5b0c6be49532f1a completed March 21, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.