Triple

T597469
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) E11417 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Tom Courtenay
Tom Courtenay is an acclaimed English actor known for his work in classic films such as "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Doctor Zhivago," as well as an extensive stage and television career.
E82898 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: Tom Courtenay | Statement: [Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film), starredActor, Tom Courtenay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Courtenay
Context triple: [Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film), starredActor, Tom Courtenay]
  • A. Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
  • B. Hugh Fraser
    Hugh Fraser was a British Conservative politician and long-serving Member of Parliament who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
  • D. Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • E. Benjamin Whitrow
    Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
  • 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: Tom Courtenay
Triple: [Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film), starredActor, Tom Courtenay]
Generated description
Tom Courtenay is an acclaimed English actor known for his work in classic films such as "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Doctor Zhivago," as well as an extensive stage and television career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Courtenay
Target entity description: Tom Courtenay is an acclaimed English actor known for his work in classic films such as "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Doctor Zhivago," as well as an extensive stage and television career.
  • A. Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
  • B. Hugh Fraser
    Hugh Fraser was a British Conservative politician and long-serving Member of Parliament who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
  • D. Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • E. Benjamin Whitrow
    Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
  • 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_69a4932779b881908688590d59c71900 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49d2b98d08190a1c1e8659efdfd75 completed March 1, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5c389eb708190911de8a28e55ab7f completed March 2, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5c931f4108190a5a4f1ed6241330d completed March 2, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5ce4e6a74819082987a4c63023e48 completed March 2, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.