Triple

T10809435
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patrick Troughton E255056 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Michael Troughton
Michael Troughton is a British actor and writer, known for his television roles and for being the son and biographer of Doctor Who star Patrick Troughton.
E901502 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: Michael Troughton | Statement: [Patrick Troughton, relative, Michael Troughton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Troughton
Context triple: [Patrick Troughton, relative, Michael Troughton]
  • A. Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • B. Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
  • C. Michael Hordern
    Michael Hordern was an English actor renowned for his distinguished stage and screen career, often noted for his Shakespearean roles and character work in British film and television.
  • D. Adrian Scarborough
    Adrian Scarborough is a British character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in film, television, and theatre, often in period dramas and dark comedies.
  • E. Alan Aldridge
    Alan Aldridge was a British illustrator and graphic designer famed for his vibrant, surreal artwork for 1960s and 1970s music and pop culture icons, including The Beatles and Elton John.
  • 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: Michael Troughton
Triple: [Patrick Troughton, relative, Michael Troughton]
Generated description
Michael Troughton is a British actor and writer, known for his television roles and for being the son and biographer of Doctor Who star Patrick Troughton.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Troughton
Target entity description: Michael Troughton is a British actor and writer, known for his television roles and for being the son and biographer of Doctor Who star Patrick Troughton.
  • A. Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • B. Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
  • C. Michael Hordern
    Michael Hordern was an English actor renowned for his distinguished stage and screen career, often noted for his Shakespearean roles and character work in British film and television.
  • D. Adrian Scarborough
    Adrian Scarborough is a British character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in film, television, and theatre, often in period dramas and dark comedies.
  • E. Alan Aldridge
    Alan Aldridge was a British illustrator and graphic designer famed for his vibrant, surreal artwork for 1960s and 1970s music and pop culture icons, including The Beatles and Elton John.
  • 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_69d6aa61c15c8190a1839550c56e75e1 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d733b6efc48190bb64b5a8fac843c4 completed April 9, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3a9033148819095c6e7485c3a73e6 completed April 18, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3b1dfea348190a61eb19266801ad0 completed April 18, 2026, 4:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3b2c65fa081908038cc2f71e49073 completed April 18, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.