Triple
T8207154
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Whole Town’s Talking |
E191715
|
entity |
| Predicate | starred |
P5563
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Donald Meek |
E129457
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Donald Meek | Statement: [The Whole Town’s Talking, starred, Donald Meek]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Meek Context triple: [The Whole Town’s Talking, starred, Donald Meek]
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A.
Donald Meek
chosen
Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor known for his distinctive, mild-mannered roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Fred Kilgour
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
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C.
Lin McAdam
Lin McAdam is the determined and skilled gunslinger protagonist of the classic 1950 Western film "Winchester '73," portrayed by James Stewart.
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D.
Colin Buchanan
Colin Buchanan is an Anglican bishop and liturgical scholar who served as the Bishop of Woolwich in the Church of England.
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E.
Andrew Macdonald
Andrew Macdonald is the pseudonym used by William Luther Pierce for his infamous white supremacist novel "The Turner Diaries."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82c7f3e08190857bf1fc63b2a10c |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb726b520081908ce4a03bd14dfcdf |
completed | March 31, 2026, 7:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cd94d541f08190adf1fe7020b3c39b |
completed | April 1, 2026, 9:57 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:43 p.m.