Triple

T14476317
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billie Honor Whitelaw E358981 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Beckett plays
Beckett plays are a series of avant-garde, minimalist stage works by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, known for their existential themes, sparse staging, and innovative use of language and silence.
 E117437 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: Beckett plays | Statement: [Billie Honor Whitelaw, notableWork, Beckett plays]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Beckett plays
Context triple: [Billie Honor Whitelaw, notableWork, Beckett plays]
  • A. Beckett
    Beckett is a surname most famously associated with Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author of "Waiting for Godot."
  • B. Beckett on Film: Act Without Words I
    Beckett on Film: Act Without Words I is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short, wordless mime play, created as part of the Beckett on Film project.
  • C. Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds...
    Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "...but the clouds..." featuring a performance by acclaimed Beckett interpreter Billie Whitelaw.
  • D. Beckett on Film: Catastrophe
    Beckett on Film: Catastrophe is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Catastrophe," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
  • E. Beckett on Film: Footfalls
    Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
  • 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: Beckett plays
Triple: [Billie Honor Whitelaw, notableWork, Beckett plays]
Generated description
Beckett plays are a series of avant-garde, minimalist stage works by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, known for their existential themes, sparse staging, and innovative use of language and silence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Beckett plays
Target entity description: Beckett plays are a series of avant-garde, minimalist stage works by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, known for their existential themes, sparse staging, and innovative use of language and silence.
  • A. Beckett chosen
    Beckett is a surname most famously associated with Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author of "Waiting for Godot."
  • B. Beckett on Film: Act Without Words I
    Beckett on Film: Act Without Words I is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short, wordless mime play, created as part of the Beckett on Film project.
  • C. Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds...
    Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "...but the clouds..." featuring a performance by acclaimed Beckett interpreter Billie Whitelaw.
  • D. Beckett on Film: Catastrophe
    Beckett on Film: Catastrophe is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Catastrophe," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
  • E. Beckett on Film: Footfalls
    Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d827966698819082e140837737501d completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de9248edb48190a74eb032aeaac027 completed April 14, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd64a0553081909fd88d8f39ed1a01 completed May 8, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd698579588190a49f6c7a91266117 completed May 8, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd6a6060488190ab5662037b52c591 completed May 8, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:20 a.m.