Triple

T10478356
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject This Week (BBC TV programme) E247104 entity
Predicate regularContributor P91340 FINISHED
Object Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson is a British Labour Party politician and former Home Secretary who has become a prominent political commentator and media contributor.
E76098 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: Alan Johnson | Statement: [This Week (BBC TV programme), regularContributor, Alan Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Johnson
Context triple: [This Week (BBC TV programme), regularContributor, Alan Johnson]
  • A. Alan Johnson
    Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician who served as Home Secretary and held several other senior cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
  • B. John W. Gardner
    John W. Gardner was an American reformer, educator, and public official best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and for founding the citizens’ advocacy organization Common Cause.
  • C. Patrick O’Hare
    Patrick O’Hare was one of the civilians killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in County Down, Northern Ireland, when loyalist gunmen opened fire in a village pub during a World Cup football match.
  • D. John O. Pastore
    John O. Pastore was a prominent U.S. senator from Rhode Island known for his influential role in federal oversight of atomic energy policy and regulation.
  • E. Ramsey Clark
    Ramsey Clark was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson and later became known for his outspoken civil liberties and anti-war advocacy.
  • 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: Alan Johnson
Triple: [This Week (BBC TV programme), regularContributor, Alan Johnson]
Generated description
Alan Johnson is a British Labour Party politician and former Home Secretary who has become a prominent political commentator and media contributor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Johnson
Target entity description: Alan Johnson is a British Labour Party politician and former Home Secretary who has become a prominent political commentator and media contributor.
  • A. Alan Johnson chosen
    Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician who served as Home Secretary and held several other senior cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
  • B. John W. Gardner
    John W. Gardner was an American reformer, educator, and public official best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and for founding the citizens’ advocacy organization Common Cause.
  • C. Patrick O’Hare
    Patrick O’Hare was one of the civilians killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in County Down, Northern Ireland, when loyalist gunmen opened fire in a village pub during a World Cup football match.
  • D. John O. Pastore
    John O. Pastore was a prominent U.S. senator from Rhode Island known for his influential role in federal oversight of atomic energy policy and regulation.
  • E. Ramsey Clark
    Ramsey Clark was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson and later became known for his outspoken civil liberties and anti-war advocacy.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d5190da7f081908c38b5964a567e37 completed April 7, 2026, 2:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d8dc73991881909aa538fce1e05a7c completed April 10, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8e8c81bdc8190b6b6dfe00025b514 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d901e1ecf88190acd24a0e20462cb9 completed April 10, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:21 p.m.