Triple

T13238017
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ealing comedies E315204 entity
Predicate typicalDirector P52198 FINISHED
Object Alexander Mackendrick
Alexander Mackendrick was a Scottish-American film director best known for his classic mid-20th-century British comedies at Ealing Studios, including "The Ladykillers" and "Whisky Galore!".
E1028865 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 Mackendrick | Statement: [Ealing comedies, typicalDirector, Alexander Mackendrick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Mackendrick
Context triple: [Ealing comedies, typicalDirector, Alexander Mackendrick]
  • A. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
  • B. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell was a pioneering British film director best known for his visually inventive and psychologically rich collaborations with Emeric Pressburger, such as "The Red Shoes" and "Black Narcissus."
  • C. Lindsay Anderson
    Lindsay Anderson was a British film director and critic associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "If...." and "O Lucky Man!".
  • D. Tony Richardson
    Tony Richardson was a British film and theatre director associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "Tom Jones" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
  • E. Lewis Gilbert
    Lewis Gilbert was a British film director best known for his work on several James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice," "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Moonraker."
  • 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 Mackendrick
Triple: [Ealing comedies, typicalDirector, Alexander Mackendrick]
Generated description
Alexander Mackendrick was a Scottish-American film director best known for his classic mid-20th-century British comedies at Ealing Studios, including "The Ladykillers" and "Whisky Galore!".
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Mackendrick
Target entity description: Alexander Mackendrick was a Scottish-American film director best known for his classic mid-20th-century British comedies at Ealing Studios, including "The Ladykillers" and "Whisky Galore!".
  • A. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell is an American bookseller and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores.
  • B. Michael Powell
    Michael Powell was a pioneering British film director best known for his visually inventive and psychologically rich collaborations with Emeric Pressburger, such as "The Red Shoes" and "Black Narcissus."
  • C. Lindsay Anderson
    Lindsay Anderson was a British film director and critic associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "If...." and "O Lucky Man!".
  • D. Tony Richardson
    Tony Richardson was a British film and theatre director associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "Tom Jones" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
  • E. Lewis Gilbert
    Lewis Gilbert was a British film director best known for his work on several James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice," "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "Moonraker."
  • 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_69d806b1072881909e46bd212259c5f0 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98d56da008190af55da3a9e7ffd4d completed April 10, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6ff323a3c8190b46b24e69e653105 completed May 3, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7013a368c8190a768f837f6551f5b completed May 3, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7038563848190ae96538e30ecafd5 completed May 3, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:23 p.m.