Triple

T6168408
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nigel Bruce E137629 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Nigel Ernle Bruce
William Nigel Ernle Bruce, better known as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor most famous for portraying Dr. Watson alongside Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes in a series of classic films and radio dramas of the 1930s and 1940s.
 E573076 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: William Nigel Ernle Bruce | Statement: [Nigel Bruce, birthName, William Nigel Ernle Bruce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Nigel Ernle Bruce
Context triple: [Nigel Bruce, birthName, William Nigel Ernle Bruce]
  • A. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • B. William Robert Bruce
    William Robert Bruce was a member of the Scottish aristocratic Bruce family and the brother of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, famed for acquiring the Elgin Marbles.
  • C. William Speirs Bruce
    William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish naturalist and polar explorer best known for leading the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and making significant contributions to oceanography and Antarctic science.
  • D. Sir Malcolm Bruce
    Sir Malcolm Bruce is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament for Gordon from 1983 to 2015 and held senior roles including Deputy Leader of his party.
  • E. Richard Francis-Bruce
    Richard Francis-Bruce is an Australian film editor renowned for his work on major Hollywood action and drama films.
  • 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: William Nigel Ernle Bruce
Triple: [Nigel Bruce, birthName, William Nigel Ernle Bruce]
Generated description
William Nigel Ernle Bruce, better known as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor most famous for portraying Dr. Watson alongside Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes in a series of classic films and radio dramas of the 1930s and 1940s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Nigel Ernle Bruce
Target entity description: William Nigel Ernle Bruce, better known as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor most famous for portraying Dr. Watson alongside Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes in a series of classic films and radio dramas of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • A. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • B. William Robert Bruce
    William Robert Bruce was a member of the Scottish aristocratic Bruce family and the brother of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, famed for acquiring the Elgin Marbles.
  • C. William Speirs Bruce
    William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish naturalist and polar explorer best known for leading the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and making significant contributions to oceanography and Antarctic science.
  • D. Sir Malcolm Bruce
    Sir Malcolm Bruce is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament for Gordon from 1983 to 2015 and held senior roles including Deputy Leader of his party.
  • E. Richard Francis-Bruce
    Richard Francis-Bruce is an Australian film editor renowned for his work on major Hollywood action and drama films.
  • 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_69c008a68c508190a8d78245c865960e completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05d8de56481909583104c70a52616 completed March 22, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c141a947808190ac68e6f00858a573 completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1458171588190a074797c3b51f1e7 completed March 23, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c145f2290c819093f787a4f9a6a832 completed March 23, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:18 p.m.