Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mechanic E296870 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Steve McKenna
Steve McKenna is a key character in the action thriller film "The Mechanic," serving as the impulsive and vengeful protégé of a seasoned hitman.
E1034127 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: Steve McKenna | Statement: [The Mechanic, mainCharacter, Steve McKenna]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steve McKenna
Context triple: [The Mechanic, mainCharacter, Steve McKenna]
  • A. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • B. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • C. Patrick McKenna
    Patrick McKenna is a British media and entertainment executive and entrepreneur best known for founding the investment and advisory firm Ingenious Media.
  • D. Jim McKelvey
    Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
  • E. Michael McCusker
    Michael McCusker is an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
  • 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: Steve McKenna
Triple: [The Mechanic, mainCharacter, Steve McKenna]
Generated description
Steve McKenna is a key character in the action thriller film "The Mechanic," serving as the impulsive and vengeful protégé of a seasoned hitman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steve McKenna
Target entity description: Steve McKenna is a key character in the action thriller film "The Mechanic," serving as the impulsive and vengeful protégé of a seasoned hitman.
  • A. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • B. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • C. Patrick McKenna
    Patrick McKenna is a British media and entertainment executive and entrepreneur best known for founding the investment and advisory firm Ingenious Media.
  • D. Jim McKelvey
    Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
  • E. Michael McCusker
    Michael McCusker is an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
  • 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_69d6ada0640c81908c061d7fb3d47786 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d7b6bd08190b30beba393a5b1e7 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f71f082b6481909950c8c4cb854440 completed May 3, 2026, 10:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f71fe2c128819096cc31c9cbb739b5 completed May 3, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7208d47388190b1b51f346b0d1423 completed May 3, 2026, 10:16 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.