Triple

T8244597
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cat's Eye (1985 film) E192818 entity
Predicate stars P1956 FINISHED
Object Kenneth McMillan
Kenneth McMillan was an American character actor known for his gruff, everyman presence in films and television during the 1970s and 1980s.
E724048 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: Kenneth McMillan | Statement: [Cat's Eye (1985 film), stars, Kenneth McMillan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth McMillan
Context triple: [Cat's Eye (1985 film), stars, Kenneth McMillan]
  • A. Kenneth McMillan
    Kenneth McMillan is a computer scientist known for his influential work in model checking and formal verification.
  • B. Robert McMillan
    Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
  • C. Kenneth Millar
    Kenneth Millar, better known by his pen name Ross Macdonald, was a Canadian-American crime writer renowned for his influential Lew Archer detective novels.
  • D. Gordon McIlwham
    Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
  • E. Ian McMillan
    Ian McMillan is a British poet, broadcaster, and writer known for his lively performances and long-running BBC Radio 3 show "The Verb."
  • 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: Kenneth McMillan
Triple: [Cat's Eye (1985 film), stars, Kenneth McMillan]
Generated description
Kenneth McMillan was an American character actor known for his gruff, everyman presence in films and television during the 1970s and 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth McMillan
Target entity description: Kenneth McMillan was an American character actor known for his gruff, everyman presence in films and television during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • A. Kenneth McMillan
    Kenneth McMillan is a computer scientist known for his influential work in model checking and formal verification.
  • B. Robert McMillan
    Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
  • C. Kenneth Millar
    Kenneth Millar, better known by his pen name Ross Macdonald, was a Canadian-American crime writer renowned for his influential Lew Archer detective novels.
  • D. Gordon McIlwham
    Gordon McIlwham is a former Scottish rugby union player, best known for his role as a prop and for representing Scotland at international level.
  • E. Ian McMillan
    Ian McMillan is a British poet, broadcaster, and writer known for his lively performances and long-running BBC Radio 3 show "The Verb."
  • 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_69ca82de7b8c81908d8106f8a53cff9b completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb78711f5081909c2f357334491a07 completed March 31, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd680b0f608190b69336228346b47d completed April 1, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd6c21172481908dc04b85ee4370a8 completed April 1, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd7dd65fac8190b8f44b1cf2be7bdd completed April 1, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:47 p.m.