Triple

T5746935
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cobweb E126757 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object John Kerr
John Kerr was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including notable performances in dramas and thrillers.
E548963 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 Kerr | Statement: [The Cobweb, starring, John Kerr]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Kerr
Context triple: [The Cobweb, starring, John Kerr]
  • A. John Kerr
    John Kerr was a Scottish physicist best known for discovering the Kerr effect, a phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied electric field.
  • B. Wilfred Urquhart
    Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • C. Roy Urquhart
    Roy Urquhart was a British Army major-general best known for leading the 1st Airborne Division during World War II, particularly in the failed Operation Market Garden at Arnhem in 1944.
  • D. James Ramsay
    James Ramsay was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and prominent British abolitionist who campaigned vigorously against the transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. Robert L. Stanfield
    Robert L. Stanfield was a prominent Canadian politician and long-serving leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, widely regarded as one of Canada's most respected opposition leaders.
  • 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 Kerr
Triple: [The Cobweb, starring, John Kerr]
Generated description
John Kerr was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including notable performances in dramas and thrillers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Kerr
Target entity description: John Kerr was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, including notable performances in dramas and thrillers.
  • A. John Kerr
    John Kerr was a Scottish physicist best known for discovering the Kerr effect, a phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied electric field.
  • B. Wilfred Urquhart
    Wilfred Urquhart is a person notable for bearing the surname Urquhart, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not well documented.
  • C. Roy Urquhart
    Roy Urquhart was a British Army major-general best known for leading the 1st Airborne Division during World War II, particularly in the failed Operation Market Garden at Arnhem in 1944.
  • D. James Ramsay
    James Ramsay was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and prominent British abolitionist who campaigned vigorously against the transatlantic slave trade.
  • E. Robert L. Stanfield
    Robert L. Stanfield was a prominent Canadian politician and long-serving leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, widely regarded as one of Canada's most respected opposition leaders.
  • 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_69c0083179548190b384b0bf3c08ca4d completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02885b0288190835809681a364b1f completed March 22, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c097fcba40819097543d151b890788 completed March 23, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c098d889e08190adbd12504a7f3fa1 completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09990da18819099fdc8f25f2ddef2 completed March 23, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:48 p.m.