Triple

T7659514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steptoe and Son E173467 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Harold Steptoe
Harold Steptoe is the ambitious yet perpetually frustrated son in the British sitcom "Steptoe and Son," known for his constant clashes with his stubborn, manipulative father.
E679406 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: Harold Steptoe | Statement: [Steptoe and Son, mainCharacter, Harold Steptoe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Steptoe
Context triple: [Steptoe and Son, mainCharacter, Harold Steptoe]
  • A. Patrick Steptoe
    Patrick Steptoe was a British obstetrician and gynecologist who pioneered in vitro fertilization techniques, leading to the birth of the world’s first “test-tube baby.”
  • B. Theodore Naidish
    Theodore Naidish was the first husband of Broadway star Carol Channing, to whom she was married early in her career.
  • C. Robert Edwards
    Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
  • D. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • E. Dr. Walter Curnow
    Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
  • 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: Harold Steptoe
Triple: [Steptoe and Son, mainCharacter, Harold Steptoe]
Generated description
Harold Steptoe is the ambitious yet perpetually frustrated son in the British sitcom "Steptoe and Son," known for his constant clashes with his stubborn, manipulative father.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Steptoe
Target entity description: Harold Steptoe is the ambitious yet perpetually frustrated son in the British sitcom "Steptoe and Son," known for his constant clashes with his stubborn, manipulative father.
  • A. Patrick Steptoe
    Patrick Steptoe was a British obstetrician and gynecologist who pioneered in vitro fertilization techniques, leading to the birth of the world’s first “test-tube baby.”
  • B. Theodore Naidish
    Theodore Naidish was the first husband of Broadway star Carol Channing, to whom she was married early in her career.
  • C. Robert Edwards
    Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
  • D. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • E. Dr. Walter Curnow
    Dr. Walter Curnow is a fictional engineer and spacecraft designer who plays a central role in the science fiction film "2010: The Year We Make Contact," the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey."
  • 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_69c69955517c819085bc715b96d304d2 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701a32f588190a7a923e8ce43f727 completed March 27, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c89b14b6848190892a262903d78b79 completed March 29, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c89becbf148190b1f065f4016a6d03 completed March 29, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c89cc3a3788190bd91aa0995b96c26 completed March 29, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:59 p.m.