Triple
T19284145
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Macra Terror |
E482264
|
entity |
| Predicate | writer |
P1360
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ian Stuart Black |
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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: Ian Stuart Black | Statement: [The Macra Terror, writer, Ian Stuart Black]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian Stuart Black Context triple: [The Macra Terror, writer, Ian Stuart Black]
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A.
Ian Stuart Black
chosen
Ian Stuart Black was a British television scriptwriter and novelist best known for his work on the science fiction series Doctor Who in the 1960s.
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B.
Ian Black
Ian Black is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British journalist and author known for his work on Middle Eastern affairs.
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C.
Alan Statham
Alan Statham is a socially awkward, pompous, and often inept radiologist known for his bizarre behavior and unrequited love interests in the British comedy series "Green Wing."
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D.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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E.
Ian Furner
Ian Furner is an academic known for supervising the doctoral research of prominent plant biologist Dame Ottoline Leyser.
- 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_69d8e8cf61b0819096fe3e4107827c4e |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5fc0099148190bfec8e8eadc72406 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 10:12 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:30 p.m.