Triple

T6795799
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Outlander E156049 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Richard Rankin
Richard Rankin is a Scottish actor best known for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the television series "Outlander."
 E649820 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: Richard Rankin | Statement: [Outlander, castMember, Richard Rankin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Rankin
Context triple: [Outlander, castMember, Richard Rankin]
  • A. Richard Macdonald
    Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
  • B. Richard McIlkenny
    Richard McIlkenny was an Irish man wrongfully convicted as one of the Birmingham Six in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, whose case became a landmark example of miscarriages of justice in the UK.
  • C. George Rankin
    George Rankin was a British politician and colonial administrator best known for serving on the Simon Commission that reviewed constitutional reforms in British India in the late 1920s.
  • D. Duncan Stewart
    Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
  • E. Garth Stevenson
    Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
  • 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: Richard Rankin
Triple: [Outlander, castMember, Richard Rankin]
Generated description
Richard Rankin is a Scottish actor best known for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the television series "Outlander."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Rankin
Target entity description: Richard Rankin is a Scottish actor best known for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the television series "Outlander."
  • A. Richard Macdonald
    Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
  • B. Richard McIlkenny
    Richard McIlkenny was an Irish man wrongfully convicted as one of the Birmingham Six in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, whose case became a landmark example of miscarriages of justice in the UK.
  • C. George Rankin
    George Rankin was a British politician and colonial administrator best known for serving on the Simon Commission that reviewed constitutional reforms in British India in the late 1920s.
  • D. Duncan Stewart
    Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
  • E. Garth Stevenson
    Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
  • 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_69c6881844448190a65822d9b39d7f88 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d2c6e7dc8190b1f33372d047baba completed March 27, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7cbb542f08190bfea892ea90390b3 completed March 28, 2026, 12:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7cc6a05608190b257fa1bbb021ba8 completed March 28, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7cd9966e481909eb3c23bb59777d9 completed March 28, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:15 p.m.