Triple

T10463366
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zulu E246730 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object John Prebble
John Prebble was a British-Canadian writer and historian best known for his popular works on Scottish history and for writing the screenplay for the film "Zulu."
E871200 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: John Prebble | Statement: [Zulu, screenwriter, John Prebble]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Prebble
Context triple: [Zulu, screenwriter, John Prebble]
  • A. Bernard Bresslaw
    Bernard Bresslaw was a British comic actor best known for his towering height and recurring roles in the "Carry On" film series.
  • B. Cyril Mardall
    Cyril Mardall was an architect known for his work on major cultural venues, including the design of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.
  • C. Philip Stainton
    Philip Stainton was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films, including the adventure drama "Mogambo."
  • D. Martin Pugh
    Martin Pugh is a British historian known for his influential works on modern British political and social history, including studies of the Labour Party, feminism, and interwar politics.
  • E. Walter Bidlake
    Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
  • 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: John Prebble
Triple: [Zulu, screenwriter, John Prebble]
Generated description
John Prebble was a British-Canadian writer and historian best known for his popular works on Scottish history and for writing the screenplay for the film "Zulu."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Prebble
Target entity description: John Prebble was a British-Canadian writer and historian best known for his popular works on Scottish history and for writing the screenplay for the film "Zulu."
  • A. Bernard Bresslaw
    Bernard Bresslaw was a British comic actor best known for his towering height and recurring roles in the "Carry On" film series.
  • B. Cyril Mardall
    Cyril Mardall was an architect known for his work on major cultural venues, including the design of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.
  • C. Philip Stainton
    Philip Stainton was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films, including the adventure drama "Mogambo."
  • D. Martin Pugh
    Martin Pugh is a British historian known for his influential works on modern British political and social history, including studies of the Labour Party, feminism, and interwar politics.
  • E. Walter Bidlake
    Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
  • 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_69d381c16c248190a2fe5b471e584e9c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d50885e220819089e455b646f31e65 completed April 7, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d933b40ff8819097e994a496228b7d completed April 10, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d938c697f481908a93296ee7f82eae completed April 10, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d940176c988190b7583ce9f2c21898 completed April 10, 2026, 6:23 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:19 p.m.