Triple

T1678675
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Nighy E36288 entity
Predicate characterPortrayed P1507 FINISHED
Object Sam (About Time)
Sam is a character from the romantic comedy-drama film "About Time," portrayed by actor Bill Nighy.
E190458 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: Sam (About Time) | Statement: [Bill Nighy, characterPortrayed, Sam (About Time)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam (About Time)
Context triple: [Bill Nighy, characterPortrayed, Sam (About Time)]
  • A. Timothy
    Timothy is a prominent early Christian companion and protégé of the Apostle Paul, known from the New Testament for his missionary work and pastoral leadership.
  • B. Timothy
    Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
  • C. Colin
    Colin is a masculine given name of Irish and Scottish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Liam
    Liam is a popular masculine given name of Irish origin, commonly understood as a short form of William.
  • E. Noel
    "Noel" is a critically acclaimed episode of *The West Wing* centered on Josh Lyman’s struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder during the holiday season.
  • 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: Sam (About Time)
Triple: [Bill Nighy, characterPortrayed, Sam (About Time)]
Generated description
Sam is a character from the romantic comedy-drama film "About Time," portrayed by actor Bill Nighy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam (About Time)
Target entity description: Sam is a character from the romantic comedy-drama film "About Time," portrayed by actor Bill Nighy.
  • A. Timothy
    Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
  • B. Timothy
    Timothy is a prominent early Christian companion and protégé of the Apostle Paul, known from the New Testament for his missionary work and pastoral leadership.
  • C. Colin
    Colin is a masculine given name of Irish and Scottish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Liam
    Liam is a popular masculine given name of Irish origin, commonly understood as a short form of William.
  • E. Noel
    Noel is the middle name of Charles Noel Carnegie, the 10th Earl of Southesk, a Scottish nobleman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa625f7e1081909c3c4fe76625783a completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71ba4db08190a532fb334fd0cd23 completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad73cfce488190b0ed6b85713281d3 completed March 8, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad74401cbc8190bfaba1e9f32810bc completed March 8, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.