Triple

T11800903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frank Thornton E280622 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Frank Thornton Ball
Frank Thornton Ball, better known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Captain Peacock in the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
E947908 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: Frank Thornton Ball | Statement: [Frank Thornton, birthName, Frank Thornton Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Thornton Ball
Context triple: [Frank Thornton, birthName, Frank Thornton Ball]
  • A. Frank Bannister
    Frank Bannister is a psychic investigator and con artist who can see and communicate with ghosts in the horror-comedy film "The Frighteners."
  • B. John Brabourne
    John Brabourne was a British film and television producer, known for his adaptations of classic literature and for being the son-in-law of Lord Mountbatten.
  • C. Thomas Pasley
    Thomas Pasley was a Royal Navy officer who rose to flag rank during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and saw extensive service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • D. George Wootten
    George Wootten was an Australian Army lieutenant general who distinguished himself as a senior commander in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War.
  • E. Richard Thorpe
    Richard Thorpe was a prolific American film director best known for his long tenure at MGM, where he directed numerous popular features from the 1930s through the 1950s, including classics like "Ivanhoe" and "Knights of the Round Table."
  • 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: Frank Thornton Ball
Triple: [Frank Thornton, birthName, Frank Thornton Ball]
Generated description
Frank Thornton Ball, better known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Captain Peacock in the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Thornton Ball
Target entity description: Frank Thornton Ball, better known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Captain Peacock in the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
  • A. Frank Bannister
    Frank Bannister is a psychic investigator and con artist who can see and communicate with ghosts in the horror-comedy film "The Frighteners."
  • B. John Brabourne
    John Brabourne was a British film and television producer, known for his adaptations of classic literature and for being the son-in-law of Lord Mountbatten.
  • C. Thomas Pasley
    Thomas Pasley was a Royal Navy officer who rose to flag rank during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and saw extensive service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • D. George Wootten
    George Wootten was an Australian Army lieutenant general who distinguished himself as a senior commander in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War.
  • E. Richard Thorpe
    Richard Thorpe was a prolific American film director best known for his long tenure at MGM, where he directed numerous popular features from the 1930s through the 1950s, including classics like "Ivanhoe" and "Knights of the Round Table."
  • 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_69d6ab258b808190b1735835c841e3a4 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5a4512c8190b7782e1dee053000 completed April 10, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f13129fa608190b080dc27f8bd7803 completed April 28, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f14e879aa88190a95f13e23dd346f4 completed April 29, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f156fa5cc48190a43c1d2e5df346fe completed April 29, 2026, 12:55 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.