Triple

T6959327
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Connolly E161328 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Connolly
William Connolly is a Scottish comedian, actor, and musician renowned for his observational stand-up comedy and influential presence in British entertainment.
 E631470 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 Connolly | Statement: [Billy Connolly, birthName, William Connolly]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Connolly
Context triple: [Billy Connolly, birthName, William Connolly]
  • A. Robert Connolly
    Robert Connolly is an Australian filmmaker known for his work as a producer, director, and screenwriter on acclaimed feature films and television projects.
  • B. William Drennan
    William Drennan was an Irish physician, poet, and political radical best known as a leading advocate of Irish republicanism and civil rights in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. William McGann
    William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
  • D. Alister McIntyre
    Alister McIntyre was a prominent Grenadian economist and regional leader who played a key role in advancing Caribbean economic integration and development.
  • E. John Leeson
    John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
  • 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 Connolly
Triple: [Billy Connolly, birthName, William Connolly]
Generated description
William Connolly is a Scottish comedian, actor, and musician renowned for his observational stand-up comedy and influential presence in British entertainment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Connolly
Target entity description: William Connolly is a Scottish comedian, actor, and musician renowned for his observational stand-up comedy and influential presence in British entertainment.
  • A. Robert Connolly
    Robert Connolly is an Australian filmmaker known for his work as a producer, director, and screenwriter on acclaimed feature films and television projects.
  • B. William Drennan
    William Drennan was an Irish physician, poet, and political radical best known as a leading advocate of Irish republicanism and civil rights in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. William McGann
    William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
  • D. Alister McIntyre
    Alister McIntyre was a prominent Grenadian economist and regional leader who played a key role in advancing Caribbean economic integration and development.
  • E. John Leeson
    John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
  • 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_69c68852a9a0819097797e31d492e273 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6daedbb4c8190b46846fb1265b937 completed March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c75893a4808190b94a70d8823a01d3 completed March 28, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c759d65a008190a6121949651dcd5c completed March 28, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c75a7a0af88190abf9d1dc4efd8b29 completed March 28, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.