Triple

T2147518
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Boyd E47101 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William Nathan Boyd
William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
E280643 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: William Nathan Boyd | Statement: [Billy Boyd, birthName, William Nathan Boyd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nathan Boyd
Context triple: [Billy Boyd, birthName, William Nathan Boyd]
  • A. Russell Boyd
    Russell Boyd is an acclaimed Australian cinematographer best known for his work on films such as "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," for which he won an Academy Award.
  • B. Francis Wallace Burns
    Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
  • C. William Wellington Cairns
    William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • D. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • E. Ogden Mills Reid
    Ogden Mills Reid was an American newspaper publisher who led the New York Herald Tribune and was part of the influential Reid media family.
  • 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: William Nathan Boyd
Triple: [Billy Boyd, birthName, William Nathan Boyd]
Generated description
William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nathan Boyd
Target entity description: William Nathan Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician best known for playing the hobbit Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
  • A. Russell Boyd
    Russell Boyd is an acclaimed Australian cinematographer best known for his work on films such as "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," for which he won an Academy Award.
  • B. Francis Wallace Burns
    Francis Wallace Burns was one of the sons of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, remembered primarily through his connection to his father's legacy.
  • C. William Wellington Cairns
    William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • D. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • E. Ogden Mills Reid
    Ogden Mills Reid was an American newspaper publisher who led the New York Herald Tribune and was part of the influential Reid media family.
  • 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_69a88a1933e0819094f18426ed74180f completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbe271adc8190888c9086e9b8cc0c completed March 7, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af834e87b48190b3299c70a0679b47 completed March 10, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af840b2fb881909755b06563b8c561 completed March 10, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af8487bcac819085b6f5827a48696a completed March 10, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.