Triple

T9789197
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Best Friend's Wedding E237564 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object George Downes
George Downes is a witty, supportive gay friend who serves as Julia Roberts’ character’s confidant and comedic foil in the romantic comedy film "My Best Friend’s Wedding."
E827911 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: George Downes | Statement: [My Best Friend's Wedding, character, George Downes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Downes
Context triple: [My Best Friend's Wedding, character, George Downes]
  • A. Charles Downing
    Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
  • B. George Downie
    George Downie was a British Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the fleet that fought and was defeated at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812.
  • C. Ian Ward
    Ian Ward is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts.
  • D. Philip Herriton
    Philip Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," depicted as a conventional, somewhat repressed Englishman whose experiences in Italy challenge his assumptions and emotional reserve.
  • E. George Drysdale
    George Drysdale was a 19th-century Scottish physician and early advocate of birth control and population reform, best known for his influential work "The Elements of Social Science."
  • 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: George Downes
Triple: [My Best Friend's Wedding, character, George Downes]
Generated description
George Downes is a witty, supportive gay friend who serves as Julia Roberts’ character’s confidant and comedic foil in the romantic comedy film "My Best Friend’s Wedding."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Downes
Target entity description: George Downes is a witty, supportive gay friend who serves as Julia Roberts’ character’s confidant and comedic foil in the romantic comedy film "My Best Friend’s Wedding."
  • A. Charles Downing
    Charles Downing was the brother of influential American landscape designer and horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing, and was himself involved in 19th-century American horticulture.
  • B. George Downie
    George Downie was a British Royal Navy officer best known for commanding the fleet that fought and was defeated at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812.
  • C. Ian Ward
    Ian Ward is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts.
  • D. Philip Herriton
    Philip Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," depicted as a conventional, somewhat repressed Englishman whose experiences in Italy challenge his assumptions and emotional reserve.
  • E. George Drysdale
    George Drysdale was a 19th-century Scottish physician and early advocate of birth control and population reform, best known for his influential work "The Elements of Social Science."
  • 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_69ca84da927881909bda80caecad6010 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda214875481909f39e1d4dbac1fdb completed April 1, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1eac78b1881908e77c3678f98fac9 completed April 5, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1ed7a2040819080ee965cdba528c2 completed April 5, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1ee159e7081908ff1299a41e66f98 completed April 5, 2026, 5:07 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:27 p.m.