Triple
T18283097
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Husbands of River Song |
E437911
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entity |
| Predicate | director |
P255
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FINISHED |
| Object | Douglas Mackinnon |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Douglas Mackinnon | Statement: [The Husbands of River Song, director, Douglas Mackinnon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Mackinnon Context triple: [The Husbands of River Song, director, Douglas Mackinnon]
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A.
Douglas Mackinnon
chosen
Douglas Mackinnon is a Scottish television director best known for his work on series such as Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Good Omens.
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B.
Bob MacKinnon
Bob MacKinnon was an American basketball coach known for his work in the ABA and NBA, including leading the Spirits of St. Louis.
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C.
Don McKinnon
Don McKinnon is a New Zealand politician and diplomat best known for serving as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and later as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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D.
Stewart Mackinnon
Stewart Mackinnon is a film and television producer known for his work on projects such as the drama "The Invisible Woman."
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E.
K. Scot Macdonald
K. Scot Macdonald is an author whose nonfiction work on the origins and history of the Chippendales male dance troupe served as the basis for the television series "Welcome to Chippendales."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b914530c8190b4474d862a2b2a1b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e50057c5c881909fcda72f4a98c8c3 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 4:18 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:35 a.m.