Triple

T12009016
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pauline Collins E285856 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object John Alderton
John Alderton is an English actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Please Sir!", "Upstairs, Downstairs," and "Thomas & Sarah."
E960467 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: John Alderton | Statement: [Pauline Collins, spouse, John Alderton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Alderton
Context triple: [Pauline Collins, spouse, John Alderton]
  • A. Michael Fagan
    Michael Fagan is a British man best known for breaking into Buckingham Palace and entering Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom in 1982, one of the most notorious royal security breaches in modern history.
  • B. Andrew Shepherd
    Andrew Shepherd is the fictional widowed U.S. President portrayed by Michael Douglas in the romantic political film "The American President."
  • C. Neil Johnston
    Neil Johnston was a dominant 1950s NBA center and Hall of Famer known for leading the league in scoring with the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • D. Neil Johnston
    Neil Johnston is the husband of English actress Sue Johnston, known for her roles in television series such as "Brookside" and "The Royle Family."
  • E. Chris Foss
    Chris Foss is a British artist renowned for his highly detailed, vividly colored science fiction book and magazine cover illustrations, especially of futuristic spacecraft and machinery.
  • 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: John Alderton
Triple: [Pauline Collins, spouse, John Alderton]
Generated description
John Alderton is an English actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Please Sir!", "Upstairs, Downstairs," and "Thomas & Sarah."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Alderton
Target entity description: John Alderton is an English actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Please Sir!", "Upstairs, Downstairs," and "Thomas & Sarah."
  • A. Michael Fagan
    Michael Fagan is a British man best known for breaking into Buckingham Palace and entering Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom in 1982, one of the most notorious royal security breaches in modern history.
  • B. Andrew Shepherd
    Andrew Shepherd is the fictional widowed U.S. President portrayed by Michael Douglas in the romantic political film "The American President."
  • C. Neil Johnston
    Neil Johnston was a dominant 1950s NBA center and Hall of Famer known for leading the league in scoring with the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • D. Neil Johnston
    Neil Johnston is the husband of English actress Sue Johnston, known for her roles in television series such as "Brookside" and "The Royle Family."
  • E. Chris Foss
    Chris Foss is a British artist renowned for his highly detailed, vividly colored science fiction book and magazine cover illustrations, especially of futuristic spacecraft and machinery.
  • 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_69d6ab45a368819084fce08bf0dc3705 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903d61a4c81909e6cb6500b61df94 completed April 10, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f48b24f0c481909afd288d4f57d3b6 completed May 1, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f48fc6da4c81908442f18cb4a65b27 completed May 1, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f495cc50908190aab4f8ca64c66ef3 completed May 1, 2026, noon
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.