Triple

T16424084
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Victoria Waterfield E398893 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Edward Waterfield
Edward Waterfield is a Victorian-era English gentleman and scholar best known from Doctor Who as the father of companion Victoria Waterfield, whose experiments with time travel draw him into the Doctor’s adventures.
E1211886 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: Edward Waterfield | Statement: [Victoria Waterfield, father, Edward Waterfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Waterfield
Context triple: [Victoria Waterfield, father, Edward Waterfield]
  • A. Geoffrey Horrocks
    Geoffrey Horrocks is a British linguist and classical scholar best known for his work on the history and development of the Greek language.
  • B. Billy Hatton
    Billy Hatton is an English musician best known as the bassist and vocalist for the 1960s Merseybeat band The Fourmost.
  • C. Sir John Talbot
    Sir John Talbot is a character from the classic horror film "The Wolf Man," known as the aristocratic father of the cursed protagonist Larry Talbot.
  • D. Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy
    Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy was a powerful 14th-century English nobleman and Marcher lord who played a prominent military and political role in the Anglo-Scottish conflicts.
  • E. John Talbot
    John Talbot is best known as the husband of actress and choreographer Gates McFadden, who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  • 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: Edward Waterfield
Triple: [Victoria Waterfield, father, Edward Waterfield]
Generated description
Edward Waterfield is a Victorian-era English gentleman and scholar best known from Doctor Who as the father of companion Victoria Waterfield, whose experiments with time travel draw him into the Doctor’s adventures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Waterfield
Target entity description: Edward Waterfield is a Victorian-era English gentleman and scholar best known from Doctor Who as the father of companion Victoria Waterfield, whose experiments with time travel draw him into the Doctor’s adventures.
  • A. Geoffrey Horrocks
    Geoffrey Horrocks is a British linguist and classical scholar best known for his work on the history and development of the Greek language.
  • B. Billy Hatton
    Billy Hatton is an English musician best known as the bassist and vocalist for the 1960s Merseybeat band The Fourmost.
  • C. Sir John Talbot
    Sir John Talbot is a character from the classic horror film "The Wolf Man," known as the aristocratic father of the cursed protagonist Larry Talbot.
  • D. Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy
    Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy was a powerful 14th-century English nobleman and Marcher lord who played a prominent military and political role in the Anglo-Scottish conflicts.
  • E. John Talbot
    John Talbot is best known as the husband of actress and choreographer Gates McFadden, who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  • 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_69d87f2b9024819085c20e52de95d583 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e328f9da9081908dadbdac4b2d38ec completed April 18, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a003c70aaa08190bf88210c0b491fc1 completed May 10, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a003e3b113c819083e1abc512631e2b completed May 10, 2026, 8:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a003eb6aa748190b0c8866af405794a completed May 10, 2026, 8:15 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:09 a.m.