Triple

T4932685
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard E. Grant E110734 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Richard Grant Esterhuysen
Richard Grant Esterhuysen, better known as Richard E. Grant, is a Swazi-English actor and director renowned for his breakout role in "Withnail and I" and numerous acclaimed film and television performances.
E487346 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: Richard Grant Esterhuysen | Statement: [Richard E. Grant, birthName, Richard Grant Esterhuysen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Grant Esterhuysen
Context triple: [Richard E. Grant, birthName, Richard Grant Esterhuysen]
  • A. Eric Cradock
    Eric Cradock was a Canadian sports promoter and businessman best known as a co-founder and early owner of the Toronto Huskies basketball team.
  • B. Ben Viljoen
    Ben Viljoen was a prominent Boer general and political figure who played a key leadership role in the Second Boer War against the British.
  • C. Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld
    Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld was a prominent South African rugby administrator and pioneer of the sport in Pretoria, after whom the Loftus Versfeld Stadium is named.
  • D. Werner Louw
    Werner Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Louw.
  • E. Hendrik Louw
    Hendrik Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Louw.
  • 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: Richard Grant Esterhuysen
Triple: [Richard E. Grant, birthName, Richard Grant Esterhuysen]
Generated description
Richard Grant Esterhuysen, better known as Richard E. Grant, is a Swazi-English actor and director renowned for his breakout role in "Withnail and I" and numerous acclaimed film and television performances.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Grant Esterhuysen
Target entity description: Richard Grant Esterhuysen, better known as Richard E. Grant, is a Swazi-English actor and director renowned for his breakout role in "Withnail and I" and numerous acclaimed film and television performances.
  • A. Eric Cradock
    Eric Cradock was a Canadian sports promoter and businessman best known as a co-founder and early owner of the Toronto Huskies basketball team.
  • B. Ben Viljoen
    Ben Viljoen was a prominent Boer general and political figure who played a key leadership role in the Second Boer War against the British.
  • C. Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld
    Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld was a prominent South African rugby administrator and pioneer of the sport in Pretoria, after whom the Loftus Versfeld Stadium is named.
  • D. Werner Louw
    Werner Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Louw.
  • E. Hendrik Louw
    Hendrik Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Louw.
  • 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_69bd4415190c8190817bee7ec9f9f944 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd70652d988190ba4a493db510952e completed March 20, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be923eac848190b8511b8027c87ff3 completed March 21, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9639133881909031942616b51abc completed March 21, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be968b79bc81909b532eddb3a8da42 completed March 21, 2026, 1 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.