Triple

T7659537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steptoe and Son E173467 entity
Predicate openingTheme P2759 FINISHED
Object "Old Ned"
"Old Ned" is the distinctive, melancholic theme music associated with the British television sitcom *Steptoe and Son*.
 E679409 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: "Old Ned" | Statement: [Steptoe and Son, openingTheme, "Old Ned"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: "Old Ned"
Context triple: [Steptoe and Son, openingTheme, "Old Ned"]
  • A. Old Man
    "Old Man" is a classic folk-rock song by Neil Young, known for its reflective lyrics about aging and life perspective, originally released on his 1972 album "Harvest."
  • B. Old Dan Tucker
    "Old Dan Tucker" is a traditional American folk song, popularized in modern times by artists like Bruce Springsteen through his folk and roots revival recordings.
  • C. Neely
    Neely is the surname of Cam Neely, a former professional ice hockey player and current executive best known for his career with the Boston Bruins.
  • D. Ned Sparks
    Ned Sparks was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his deadpan expression and sarcastic, gravelly-voiced comedic roles in early Hollywood films.
  • E. Mr. Nancy
    Mr. Nancy is a charismatic, sharp-tongued incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi who appears as an old man in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
  • 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: "Old Ned"
Triple: [Steptoe and Son, openingTheme, "Old Ned"]
Generated description
"Old Ned" is the distinctive, melancholic theme music associated with the British television sitcom *Steptoe and Son*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: "Old Ned"
Target entity description: "Old Ned" is the distinctive, melancholic theme music associated with the British television sitcom *Steptoe and Son*.
  • A. Old Man
    "Old Man" is a classic folk-rock song by Neil Young, known for its reflective lyrics about aging and life perspective, originally released on his 1972 album "Harvest."
  • B. Old Dan Tucker
    "Old Dan Tucker" is a traditional American folk song, popularized in modern times by artists like Bruce Springsteen through his folk and roots revival recordings.
  • C. Neely
    Neely is the surname of Cam Neely, a former professional ice hockey player and current executive best known for his career with the Boston Bruins.
  • D. Ned Sparks
    Ned Sparks was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his deadpan expression and sarcastic, gravelly-voiced comedic roles in early Hollywood films.
  • E. Mr. Nancy
    Mr. Nancy is a charismatic, sharp-tongued incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi who appears as an old man in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
  • 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.