Triple

T10493524
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Gentle Sex E247475 entity
Predicate filmEditingBy P14416 FINISHED
Object Fergus McDonell
Fergus McDonell was a British film editor and occasional director known for his work on mid-20th-century films, including several notable wartime and postwar productions.
E876856 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: Fergus McDonell | Statement: [The Gentle Sex, filmEditingBy, Fergus McDonell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fergus McDonell
Context triple: [The Gentle Sex, filmEditingBy, Fergus McDonell]
  • A. Donal McLaughlin
    Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
  • B. Seán Moylan
    Seán Moylan was an Irish revolutionary and politician who served as a prominent IRA commander during the War of Independence and later as a Fianna Fáil TD and government minister.
  • C. Fergus Gleeson
    Fergus Gleeson is an Irish actor and musician, known both for his work in film and television and for being part of the Gleeson family of performers.
  • D. Seán Durkan
    Seán Durkan is an Irish politician associated with the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), known for his involvement in Northern Ireland’s political landscape.
  • E. John McSherry
    John McSherry was a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his work in numerous postseason games and his sudden on-field death during a 1996 Opening Day game.
  • 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: Fergus McDonell
Triple: [The Gentle Sex, filmEditingBy, Fergus McDonell]
Generated description
Fergus McDonell was a British film editor and occasional director known for his work on mid-20th-century films, including several notable wartime and postwar productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fergus McDonell
Target entity description: Fergus McDonell was a British film editor and occasional director known for his work on mid-20th-century films, including several notable wartime and postwar productions.
  • A. Donal McLaughlin
    Donal McLaughlin was an American architect and industrial designer best known for creating the iconic emblem of the United Nations.
  • B. Seán Moylan
    Seán Moylan was an Irish revolutionary and politician who served as a prominent IRA commander during the War of Independence and later as a Fianna Fáil TD and government minister.
  • C. Fergus Gleeson
    Fergus Gleeson is an Irish actor and musician, known both for his work in film and television and for being part of the Gleeson family of performers.
  • D. Seán Durkan
    Seán Durkan is an Irish politician associated with the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), known for his involvement in Northern Ireland’s political landscape.
  • E. John McSherry
    John McSherry was a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his work in numerous postseason games and his sudden on-field death during a 1996 Opening Day game.
  • 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_69d381c309b88190af78aa681cf6a4c2 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d5097fe2bc81909d66ce43f3533284 completed April 7, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d979fa05d8819087e2167cc9247598 completed April 10, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d97c7bc87481908d50eb6f294170eb completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d97e015b088190a97822675eecaa5a completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:24 p.m.