Triple

T10865976
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McEwan E256529 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Paul McEwan
Paul McEwan is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman for Canterbury and represented New Zealand in One Day Internationals in the early 1980s.
 E923991 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: Paul McEwan | Statement: [McEwan, hasNotableBearer, Paul McEwan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul McEwan
Context triple: [McEwan, hasNotableBearer, Paul McEwan]
  • A. John McEwan
    John McEwan is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McEwan surname rather than broad public recognition.
  • B. Greg McEwan
    Greg McEwan is a child of the acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan.
  • C. Stephen Pycroft
    Stephen Pycroft is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
  • D. Clive Egleton
    Clive Egleton was a British author best known for his espionage and military thrillers, several of which were adapted for film and television.
  • E. Andrew Rennison
    Andrew Rennison is a British public official known for serving as the inaugural Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of CCTV and related surveillance technologies in the UK.
  • 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: Paul McEwan
Triple: [McEwan, hasNotableBearer, Paul McEwan]
Generated description
Paul McEwan is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman for Canterbury and represented New Zealand in One Day Internationals in the early 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul McEwan
Target entity description: Paul McEwan is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman for Canterbury and represented New Zealand in One Day Internationals in the early 1980s.
  • A. John McEwan
    John McEwan is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McEwan surname rather than broad public recognition.
  • B. Greg McEwan
    Greg McEwan is a child of the acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan.
  • C. Stephen Pycroft
    Stephen Pycroft is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
  • D. Clive Egleton
    Clive Egleton was a British author best known for his espionage and military thrillers, several of which were adapted for film and television.
  • E. Andrew Rennison
    Andrew Rennison is a British public official known for serving as the inaugural Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of CCTV and related surveillance technologies in the UK.
  • 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_69d6aa83d1448190a66d93c32394d21f completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7516cebe881909ed358a7641f6a12 completed April 9, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5b76fa8348190bb42f1c71eb0e545 completed April 20, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5bb5d6e0c8190933cd3d6e83c24a2 completed April 20, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5c29d7b608190ae79bb8318211547 completed April 20, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:20 p.m.