Triple

T14253856
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Three Doctors E353335 entity
Predicate featuresActor P15562 FINISHED
Object Stephen Thorne
Stephen Thorne was a British character actor best known for his powerful voice and memorable villainous roles in the classic science fiction series Doctor Who.
E1089687 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: Stephen Thorne | Statement: [The Three Doctors, featuresActor, Stephen Thorne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Thorne
Context triple: [The Three Doctors, featuresActor, Stephen Thorne]
  • A. Joseph Thorne
    Joseph Thorne is the protagonist of the novel "Fair Game," around whom the story’s central conflicts and developments revolve.
  • B. David Wheatley
    David Wheatley was a British film and television director known for his adaptations of literary works, including several films based on Angela Carter’s stories.
  • C. Tony Thorpe
    Tony Thorpe is an English musician best known as a founding member of the experimental electronic group The KLF and for his work in the UK electronic and dance music scene.
  • D. Michael Sinnott
    Michael Sinnott, better known as Mack Sennett, was a pioneering Canadian-American film director and producer famed as the "King of Comedy" for his influential slapstick silent films and the creation of the Keystone Cops.
  • E. Richard Hartnett
    Richard Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hartnett, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • 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: Stephen Thorne
Triple: [The Three Doctors, featuresActor, Stephen Thorne]
Generated description
Stephen Thorne was a British character actor best known for his powerful voice and memorable villainous roles in the classic science fiction series Doctor Who.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Thorne
Target entity description: Stephen Thorne was a British character actor best known for his powerful voice and memorable villainous roles in the classic science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • A. Joseph Thorne
    Joseph Thorne is the protagonist of the novel "Fair Game," around whom the story’s central conflicts and developments revolve.
  • B. David Wheatley
    David Wheatley was a British film and television director known for his adaptations of literary works, including several films based on Angela Carter’s stories.
  • C. Tony Thorpe
    Tony Thorpe is an English musician best known as a founding member of the experimental electronic group The KLF and for his work in the UK electronic and dance music scene.
  • D. Michael Sinnott
    Michael Sinnott, better known as Mack Sennett, was a pioneering Canadian-American film director and producer famed as the "King of Comedy" for his influential slapstick silent films and the creation of the Keystone Cops.
  • E. Richard Hartnett
    Richard Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hartnett, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
  • 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_69d8278c43e08190824146f4632b89a5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6297f38c819090d7c7fd8bfa2e9e completed April 14, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd325c98288190ba035fb5cc5bcf6b completed May 8, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd33cba18481908f2dfe358017f11b completed May 8, 2026, 12:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd346ffb9c81909ec28e514ea5451b completed May 8, 2026, 12:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:09 a.m.