Triple

T14843287
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Incredible Journey E349020 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceMaterial P2806 FINISHED
Object Sheila Burnford
Sheila Burnford was a British-born Canadian author best known for writing the classic animal adventure novel "The Incredible Journey."
E1156322 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: Sheila Burnford | Statement: [The Incredible Journey, authorOfSourceMaterial, Sheila Burnford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheila Burnford
Context triple: [The Incredible Journey, authorOfSourceMaterial, Sheila Burnford]
  • A. Doreen Shepherd
    Doreen Shepherd is best known as the wife of acclaimed English actor Frank Finlay.
  • B. Sandy Furness
    Sandy Furness is a powerful media and entertainment mogul in the TV series "Succession," known as a long-time business rival and adversary of Logan Roy.
  • C. Sheila Buckley
    Sheila Buckley is best known as the former secretary and later wife of British Labour MP John Stonehouse, who gained notoriety for faking his own death in the 1970s.
  • D. Doreen Brett
    Doreen Brett was the wife of British comedian and actor Norman Wisdom.
  • E. Carol Aird
    Carol Aird is the elegant, enigmatic older woman at the center of Patricia Highsmith’s novel and the film "Carol," whose forbidden romance with a younger woman drives the story’s emotional core.
  • 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: Sheila Burnford
Triple: [The Incredible Journey, authorOfSourceMaterial, Sheila Burnford]
Generated description
Sheila Burnford was a British-born Canadian author best known for writing the classic animal adventure novel "The Incredible Journey."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheila Burnford
Target entity description: Sheila Burnford was a British-born Canadian author best known for writing the classic animal adventure novel "The Incredible Journey."
  • A. Doreen Shepherd
    Doreen Shepherd is best known as the wife of acclaimed English actor Frank Finlay.
  • B. Sandy Furness
    Sandy Furness is a powerful media and entertainment mogul in the TV series "Succession," known as a long-time business rival and adversary of Logan Roy.
  • C. Sheila Buckley
    Sheila Buckley is best known as the former secretary and later wife of British Labour MP John Stonehouse, who gained notoriety for faking his own death in the 1970s.
  • D. Doreen Brett
    Doreen Brett was the wife of British comedian and actor Norman Wisdom.
  • E. Carol Aird
    Carol Aird is the elegant, enigmatic older woman at the center of Patricia Highsmith’s novel and the film "Carol," whose forbidden romance with a younger woman drives the story’s emotional core.
  • 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_69d822ec69008190a9232caa68836872 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded28fa49c81908d1059e6cafd607f completed April 14, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff1a5f38488190b441dd0b385024b1 completed May 9, 2026, 11:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff1b0e319881909af55b7c7360cc0e completed May 9, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff1bb6907c8190a3116d122303a1c6 completed May 9, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:53 a.m.