Triple

T12165373
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Ghost Ship E289819 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Edmund MacDonald
Edmund MacDonald was an American character actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in crime, mystery, and adventure films.
 E1013324 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: Edmund MacDonald | Statement: [The Ghost Ship, starredActor, Edmund MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edmund MacDonald
Context triple: [The Ghost Ship, starredActor, Edmund MacDonald]
  • A. Reginald S. Macdonald
    Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
  • B. Percy Kilbride
    Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
  • C. Edwin Broun
    Edwin Broun Fred was an American bacteriologist and academic who served as president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • E. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald is a Canadian municipal politician who served as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • 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: Edmund MacDonald
Triple: [The Ghost Ship, starredActor, Edmund MacDonald]
Generated description
Edmund MacDonald was an American character actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in crime, mystery, and adventure films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edmund MacDonald
Target entity description: Edmund MacDonald was an American character actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in crime, mystery, and adventure films.
  • A. Reginald S. Macdonald
    Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
  • B. Percy Kilbride
    Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
  • C. Edwin Broun
    Edwin Broun Fred was an American bacteriologist and academic who served as president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • E. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald is a Canadian municipal politician who served as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • 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_69d6ab4d6c00819095a9a7c35de83cfb completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915d7109481908bf5fe512bba3c89 completed April 10, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8b9717c8190b8ac71989d3b3582 completed May 3, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b9a1ca54819085da2ca592bf5219 completed May 3, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6bb03d8d88190930edd0f49fec8aa completed May 3, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.