Triple

T565988
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ford Prefect E13553 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Geoffrey McGivern
Geoffrey McGivern is a British actor best known for originating the role of Ford Prefect in the radio and early television adaptations of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
 E182041 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: Geoffrey McGivern | Statement: [Ford Prefect, portrayedBy, Geoffrey McGivern]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Geoffrey McGivern
Context triple: [Ford Prefect, portrayedBy, Geoffrey McGivern]
  • A. Keith Foulke
    Keith Foulke is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the Boston Red Sox closer who played a pivotal role in their 2004 World Series championship run.
  • B. Tony Geraghty
    Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
  • C. Douglas Guilfoyle
    Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
  • D. Alan McMichael
    Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
  • E. Alan Milburn
    Alan Milburn is a British Labour politician and former Secretary of State for Health who later became a prominent figure in public service reform and higher education leadership.
  • 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: Geoffrey McGivern
Triple: [Ford Prefect, portrayedBy, Geoffrey McGivern]
Generated description
Geoffrey McGivern is a British actor best known for originating the role of Ford Prefect in the radio and early television adaptations of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Geoffrey McGivern
Target entity description: Geoffrey McGivern is a British actor best known for originating the role of Ford Prefect in the radio and early television adaptations of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
  • A. Keith Foulke
    Keith Foulke is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the Boston Red Sox closer who played a pivotal role in their 2004 World Series championship run.
  • B. Tony Geraghty
    Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
  • C. Douglas Guilfoyle
    Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
  • D. Alan McMichael
    Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
  • E. Alan Milburn
    Alan Milburn is a British Labour politician and former Secretary of State for Health who later became a prominent figure in public service reform and higher education leadership.
  • 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_69a4933edcf08190b35ecfd6014caee6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49a74793481908fee3baff0b1d348 completed March 1, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad517bbe088190b1cac2ea8eb2063b completed March 8, 2026, 10:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad522beb488190b5157db37eb0da8e completed March 8, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad529de3dc819081c8ad3d7aa8bef8 completed March 8, 2026, 10:42 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.