Triple

T4861327
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film) E108665 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object John A. MacDonald
John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
E474449 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 A. MacDonald | Statement: [The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film), producer, John A. MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. MacDonald
Context triple: [The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film), producer, John A. MacDonald]
  • A. John Sandfield Macdonald
    John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
  • B. John A. Macdonald
    John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and a key architect of Canadian Confederation in the 19th century.
  • C. George-Étienne Cartier
    George-Étienne Cartier was a key 19th-century Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation who played a central role in uniting the provinces into modern Canada.
  • D. William Lyon Mackenzie
    William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician, and reform leader who became a central figure in early Canadian democracy and led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
  • E. Wilfrid Laurier
    Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
  • 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 A. MacDonald
Triple: [The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film), producer, John A. MacDonald]
Generated description
John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. MacDonald
Target entity description: John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
  • A. John Sandfield Macdonald
    John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
  • B. John A. Macdonald
    John A. Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada and a key architect of Canadian Confederation in the 19th century.
  • C. George-Étienne Cartier
    George-Étienne Cartier was a key 19th-century Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation who played a central role in uniting the provinces into modern Canada.
  • D. William Lyon Mackenzie
    William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician, and reform leader who became a central figure in early Canadian democracy and led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
  • E. Wilfrid Laurier
    Wilfrid Laurier was a prominent Canadian statesman who served as the country’s seventh and first French Canadian prime minister, leading a long Liberal government during a period of national expansion and compromise.
  • 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d5f62b48190b367ed1b850cfbcb completed March 20, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cf921cc8190a092bb69c1981890 completed March 21, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5e833ca88190b89dda5cafb180fe completed March 21, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5eed97a08190afd99a0700f1f4c7 completed March 21, 2026, 9:03 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.