Triple

T1408181
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Boondock Saints E31743 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object David Ferry
David Ferry is a Canadian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in the cult crime film "The Boondock Saints."
E161329 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: David Ferry | Statement: [The Boondock Saints, portrayedBy, David Ferry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Ferry
Context triple: [The Boondock Saints, portrayedBy, David Ferry]
  • A. James Merrill
    James Merrill was an American poet renowned for his formally intricate, witty, and emotionally nuanced verse, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Divine Comedies."
  • B. Edward Bishop
    Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • C. Douglas Dunn
    Douglas Dunn is a Scottish poet, editor, and academic known for his reflective verse and significant contributions to contemporary British poetry.
  • D. Harold Bloom
    Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
  • E. Robert Lowell
    Robert Lowell was a prominent 20th-century American poet and key figure in the Confessional poetry movement, known for his intensely personal and formally innovative verse.
  • 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: David Ferry
Triple: [The Boondock Saints, portrayedBy, David Ferry]
Generated description
David Ferry is a Canadian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in the cult crime film "The Boondock Saints."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Ferry
Target entity description: David Ferry is a Canadian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in the cult crime film "The Boondock Saints."
  • A. James Merrill
    James Merrill was an American poet renowned for his formally intricate, witty, and emotionally nuanced verse, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Divine Comedies."
  • B. Edward Bishop
    Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • C. Douglas Dunn
    Douglas Dunn is a Scottish poet, editor, and academic known for his reflective verse and significant contributions to contemporary British poetry.
  • D. Harold Bloom
    Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
  • E. Robert Lowell
    Robert Lowell was a prominent 20th-century American poet and key figure in the Confessional poetry movement, known for his intensely personal and formally innovative verse.
  • 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_69a49918e1f88190ba610f9dc8114578 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c3bf7f0c8190aee96818de6ff4a5 completed March 1, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace578fe4c8190a4d4ced933fac0b6 completed March 8, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace61b0ba08190930f9e21d28b4449 completed March 8, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace6b6cb0481909156f99e8d2ba08a completed March 8, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.