Triple

T9511488
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sue Johnston E229406 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Neil Johnston
Neil Johnston is the husband of English actress Sue Johnston, known for her roles in television series such as "Brookside" and "The Royle Family."
 E804344 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: Neil Johnston | Statement: [Sue Johnston, spouse, Neil Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Neil Johnston
Context triple: [Sue Johnston, spouse, Neil Johnston]
  • A. Neil Johnston
    Neil Johnston was a dominant 1950s NBA center and Hall of Famer known for leading the league in scoring with the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • B. Alan Johnston
    Alan Johnston is a telecommunications engineer and VoIP security expert known for his contributions to secure real-time communication protocols such as ZRTP.
  • C. Christopher T. Russell
    Christopher T. Russell is a planetary scientist best known for leading NASA's Dawn mission, which explored the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.
  • D. Alan Cowan
    Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • E. George Keister
    George Keister was an American architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century theaters and commercial buildings in New York City.
  • 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: Neil Johnston
Triple: [Sue Johnston, spouse, Neil Johnston]
Generated description
Neil Johnston is the husband of English actress Sue Johnston, known for her roles in television series such as "Brookside" and "The Royle Family."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Neil Johnston
Target entity description: Neil Johnston is the husband of English actress Sue Johnston, known for her roles in television series such as "Brookside" and "The Royle Family."
  • A. Neil Johnston
    Neil Johnston was a dominant 1950s NBA center and Hall of Famer known for leading the league in scoring with the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • B. Alan Johnston
    Alan Johnston is a telecommunications engineer and VoIP security expert known for his contributions to secure real-time communication protocols such as ZRTP.
  • C. Christopher T. Russell
    Christopher T. Russell is a planetary scientist best known for leading NASA's Dawn mission, which explored the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.
  • D. Alan Cowan
    Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • E. George Keister
    George Keister was an American architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century theaters and commercial buildings in New York City.
  • 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_69ca84777560819084cddd999badc1aa completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd98699b788190b1a475e1b1883584 completed April 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d13a37c7ec8190a24ae0eec76b4f67 completed April 4, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d13c1a73c88190a4308c3246864a5f completed April 4, 2026, 4:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d13c8b5d688190871f6830d0bda3ef completed April 4, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:58 p.m.