Triple

T5513767
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eric the Viking E144630 entity
Predicate stars P1956 FINISHED
Object John Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in films such as "Gregory's Girl" and various British television and stage productions.
 E529500 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 Gordon Sinclair | Statement: [Eric the Viking, stars, John Gordon Sinclair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Gordon Sinclair
Context triple: [Eric the Viking, stars, John Gordon Sinclair]
  • A. Gordon Sinclair
    Gordon Sinclair was a Canadian journalist, radio and television commentator, and author best known for his long career with the CBC and his patriotic broadcast "The Americans."
  • B. Gordon Drummond
    Gordon Drummond was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and played a key leadership role in the War of 1812.
  • C. Alexander Jonathan Gordon
    Alexander Jonathan Gordon is the full given name of Alex Gordon, a former professional baseball outfielder best known for his career with the Kansas City Royals.
  • D. Gordon Gill
    Gordon Gill is a prominent American architect known for his work on sustainable, high-performance skyscrapers and as a founding partner of the firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
  • E. Gordon Cowans
    Gordon Cowans is a former English midfielder best known for his influential role in Aston Villa’s successful early-1980s side, including their 1980–81 league title and 1982 European Cup triumph.
  • 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 Gordon Sinclair
Triple: [Eric the Viking, stars, John Gordon Sinclair]
Generated description
John Gordon Sinclair is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in films such as "Gregory's Girl" and various British television and stage productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Gordon Sinclair
Target entity description: John Gordon Sinclair is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in films such as "Gregory's Girl" and various British television and stage productions.
  • A. Gordon Sinclair
    Gordon Sinclair was a Canadian journalist, radio and television commentator, and author best known for his long career with the CBC and his patriotic broadcast "The Americans."
  • B. Gordon Drummond
    Gordon Drummond was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and played a key leadership role in the War of 1812.
  • C. Alexander Jonathan Gordon
    Alexander Jonathan Gordon is the full given name of Alex Gordon, a former professional baseball outfielder best known for his career with the Kansas City Royals.
  • D. Gordon Gill
    Gordon Gill is a prominent American architect known for his work on sustainable, high-performance skyscrapers and as a founding partner of the firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
  • E. Gordon Cowans
    Gordon Cowans is a former English midfielder best known for his influential role in Aston Villa’s successful early-1980s side, including their 1980–81 league title and 1982 European Cup triumph.
  • 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_69c008f77ff88190b0cd50ca207295d1 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f599d0881909ce86fcc45d4d920 completed March 22, 2026, 4:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c027d52b808190ada94893b043fb19 completed March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c03847b3348190be97b7c5795df368 completed March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c038e148a0819080a306307e60d437 completed March 22, 2026, 6:45 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.