Triple

T11855688
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alec McCowen E282034 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Alexander Duncan McCowen
Alexander Duncan McCowen, known professionally as Alec McCowen, was an acclaimed English actor celebrated for his work on stage, film, and television, including notable performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in several Alfred Hitchcock films.
E949052 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: Alexander Duncan McCowen | Statement: [Alec McCowen, birthName, Alexander Duncan McCowen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Duncan McCowen
Context triple: [Alec McCowen, birthName, Alexander Duncan McCowen]
  • A. Colin Buchanan
    Colin Buchanan is an Anglican bishop and liturgical scholar who served as the Bishop of Woolwich in the Church of England.
  • B. Murray Matheson
    Murray Matheson was an Australian-born character actor known for his numerous television and film roles in the mid-20th century, often portraying refined or enigmatic figures.
  • C. William Cumming
    William Cumming was a prominent early 19th-century American political and military figure from Georgia, after whom the city of Cumming, Georgia, is named.
  • D. Ian Cumming
    Ian Cumming was an American businessman and investor best known as the co-founder of the private equity firm Leucadia National Corporation and a prominent figure in diversified investments.
  • E. Thomas MacKay
    Thomas MacKay is a mountaineer known for completing the first recorded ascent of the peak Dom in the Swiss Alps.
  • 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: Alexander Duncan McCowen
Triple: [Alec McCowen, birthName, Alexander Duncan McCowen]
Generated description
Alexander Duncan McCowen, known professionally as Alec McCowen, was an acclaimed English actor celebrated for his work on stage, film, and television, including notable performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in several Alfred Hitchcock films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Duncan McCowen
Target entity description: Alexander Duncan McCowen, known professionally as Alec McCowen, was an acclaimed English actor celebrated for his work on stage, film, and television, including notable performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in several Alfred Hitchcock films.
  • A. Colin Buchanan
    Colin Buchanan is an Anglican bishop and liturgical scholar who served as the Bishop of Woolwich in the Church of England.
  • B. Murray Matheson
    Murray Matheson was an Australian-born character actor known for his numerous television and film roles in the mid-20th century, often portraying refined or enigmatic figures.
  • C. William Cumming
    William Cumming was a prominent early 19th-century American political and military figure from Georgia, after whom the city of Cumming, Georgia, is named.
  • D. Ian Cumming
    Ian Cumming was an American businessman and investor best known as the co-founder of the private equity firm Leucadia National Corporation and a prominent figure in diversified investments.
  • E. Thomas MacKay
    Thomas MacKay is a mountaineer known for completing the first recorded ascent of the peak Dom in the Swiss Alps.
  • 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_69d6ab287ba48190a5178779fd19b9b7 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a697f4108190af984932d2118472 completed April 10, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f167d9b9e8819093582637941fc5ca completed April 29, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f17006e6108190b51b20ddf6d2368c completed April 29, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f17819af5c8190a98db3cd8eff8da2 completed April 29, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:43 p.m.