Triple

T499279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Railway Man E10363 entity
Predicate producer P490 FINISHED
Object Bill Curbishley
Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
E97179 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: Bill Curbishley | Statement: [The Railway Man, producer, Bill Curbishley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Curbishley
Context triple: [The Railway Man, producer, Bill Curbishley]
  • A. Bill Dinneen
    Bill Dinneen was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher and later umpire, best known for his standout performances in the first modern World Series and his long career in the American League.
  • B. Rob Thomson
    Rob Thomson is a Canadian-born Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies, including guiding them to deep postseason runs after taking over the team midseason in 2022.
  • C. Graeme Gibson
    Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
  • D. Lee Dixon
    Lee Dixon was an American actor and dancer best known for his work in mid-20th-century stage and film musicals.
  • E. Nigel Lockyer
    Nigel Lockyer is a Canadian physicist known for his leadership in high-energy physics research, including serving as director of Fermilab and previously of TRIUMF.
  • 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: Bill Curbishley
Triple: [The Railway Man, producer, Bill Curbishley]
Generated description
Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Curbishley
Target entity description: Bill Curbishley is a British music and film producer and band manager best known for his long-time work with rock bands like The Who and Judas Priest.
  • A. Bill Dinneen
    Bill Dinneen was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball pitcher and later umpire, best known for his standout performances in the first modern World Series and his long career in the American League.
  • B. Rob Thomson
    Rob Thomson is a Canadian-born Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Philadelphia Phillies, including guiding them to deep postseason runs after taking over the team midseason in 2022.
  • C. Graeme Gibson
    Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
  • D. Lee Dixon
    Lee Dixon was an American actor and dancer best known for his work in mid-20th-century stage and film musicals.
  • E. Nigel Lockyer
    Nigel Lockyer is a Canadian physicist known for his leadership in high-energy physics research, including serving as director of Fermilab and previously of TRIUMF.
  • 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_69a2e847df8481909239ec08ccf1e376 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f119b14c8190a5a6b119579c2682 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d6571588190b1f328e7b10b627c completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78ce2d3608190af4f38768b6ef95e completed March 4, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78d84ccd08190aaa86a0adbd993a0 completed March 4, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.