Triple

T1655102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stephen Merchant E35779 entity
Predicate coCreated P1858 FINISHED
Object Extras (TV series)
Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows the often humiliating experiences of background actors trying to break into show business.
 E187025 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: Extras (TV series) | Statement: [Stephen Merchant, coCreated, Extras (TV series)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Extras (TV series)
Context triple: [Stephen Merchant, coCreated, Extras (TV series)]
  • A. Outside Broadcast
    Outside Broadcast was a European leg of U2’s Zoo TV Tour characterized by large outdoor stadium shows and an expanded, multimedia-heavy stage production.
  • B. Starsky & Hutch
    Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 action-comedy film adaptation of the 1970s TV series, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as mismatched detectives in a stylized, humorous take on buddy-cop crime fighting.
  • C. New Tricks
    New Tricks is a British television crime drama series about a team of retired police officers brought back to solve cold cases.
  • D. Entourage
    Entourage is a popular American comedy-drama television series that follows the Hollywood rise of young actor Vincent Chase and his close-knit group of friends.
  • E. Ted Lasso
    Ted Lasso is a comedy television series about an optimistic American football coach who is hired to manage a struggling English soccer team, known for its heartfelt humor and uplifting tone.
  • 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: Extras (TV series)
Triple: [Stephen Merchant, coCreated, Extras (TV series)]
Generated description
Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows the often humiliating experiences of background actors trying to break into show business.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Extras (TV series)
Target entity description: Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows the often humiliating experiences of background actors trying to break into show business.
  • A. Outside Broadcast
    Outside Broadcast was a European leg of U2’s Zoo TV Tour characterized by large outdoor stadium shows and an expanded, multimedia-heavy stage production.
  • B. Starsky & Hutch
    Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 action-comedy film adaptation of the 1970s TV series, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as mismatched detectives in a stylized, humorous take on buddy-cop crime fighting.
  • C. New Tricks
    New Tricks is a British television crime drama series about a team of retired police officers brought back to solve cold cases.
  • D. Entourage
    Entourage is a popular American comedy-drama television series that follows the Hollywood rise of young actor Vincent Chase and his close-knit group of friends.
  • E. Ted Lasso
    Ted Lasso is a comedy television series about an optimistic American football coach who is hired to manage a struggling English soccer team, known for its heartfelt humor and uplifting tone.
  • 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_69a8860568888190a32cd9f70acbba42 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a8b597c81908a62b41718d85df6 completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad60ad3bb48190a096ff7813748168 completed March 8, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad61ff65b881909009c230780a146e completed March 8, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad62ec3a80819085fef1c378b9abdc completed March 8, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.