Triple

T11447766
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Simon McBurney E271308 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object McBurney
McBurney is a surname most notably associated with English actor, writer, and director Simon McBurney.
 E926481 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: McBurney | Statement: [Simon McBurney, familyName, McBurney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McBurney
Context triple: [Simon McBurney, familyName, McBurney]
  • A. Whipple
    Whipple is a masculine given name most notably borne by Whipple Van Buren Phillips, the maternal grandfather of writer H. P. Lovecraft.
  • B. Bauch
    Bauch is a German surname most notably borne by the philosopher Bruno Bauch.
  • C. Costică
    Costică is a Romanian masculine given name commonly used as a diminutive form of Constantin.
  • D. Boerhaave
    Boerhaave is a Dutch surname most famously associated with Herman Boerhaave, an influential 18th-century physician and botanist often regarded as the father of clinical teaching.
  • E. Kocher sign
    Kocher sign is a clinical indicator associated with hyperthyroidism, particularly Graves' disease, characterized by a lag of the upper eyelid on downward gaze.
  • 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: McBurney
Triple: [Simon McBurney, familyName, McBurney]
Generated description
McBurney is a surname most notably associated with English actor, writer, and director Simon McBurney.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McBurney
Target entity description: McBurney is a surname most notably associated with English actor, writer, and director Simon McBurney.
  • A. Whipple
    Whipple is a masculine given name most notably borne by Whipple Van Buren Phillips, the maternal grandfather of writer H. P. Lovecraft.
  • B. Bauch
    Bauch is a German surname most notably borne by the philosopher Bruno Bauch.
  • C. Costică
    Costică is a Romanian masculine given name commonly used as a diminutive form of Constantin.
  • D. Boerhaave
    Boerhaave is a Dutch surname most famously associated with Herman Boerhaave, an influential 18th-century physician and botanist often regarded as the father of clinical teaching.
  • E. Kocher sign
    Kocher sign is a clinical indicator associated with hyperthyroidism, particularly Graves' disease, characterized by a lag of the upper eyelid on downward gaze.
  • 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_69d6aadff8888190a13f253f0d460874 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d81c6d4890819082fb4a670feb2629 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5d3bdafb08190aadf5d63facfedaf completed April 20, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5d7e46e248190aba139dc32185e2f completed April 20, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5e192297c8190992578f734e63427 completed April 20, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.