Triple

T2326307
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Country E48294 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object James McKay
James McKay is the principled and peace-seeking Easterner who becomes embroiled in a violent Western land feud in the classic film "The Big Country."
E262022 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: James McKay | Statement: [The Big Country, mainCharacter, James McKay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James McKay
Context triple: [The Big Country, mainCharacter, James McKay]
  • A. Fergus McMaster
    Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
  • B. Frank McHugh
    Frank McHugh was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often playing comic sidekicks and supporting roles.
  • C. Jack McGowan
    Jack McGowan was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical "Babes in Arms."
  • D. Thomas McKay
    Thomas McKay was a 19th-century Scottish-born Canadian stonemason, entrepreneur, and early industrialist who played a key role in the development of Ottawa.
  • E. Ray McDonald
    Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • 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: James McKay
Triple: [The Big Country, mainCharacter, James McKay]
Generated description
James McKay is the principled and peace-seeking Easterner who becomes embroiled in a violent Western land feud in the classic film "The Big Country."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James McKay
Target entity description: James McKay is the principled and peace-seeking Easterner who becomes embroiled in a violent Western land feud in the classic film "The Big Country."
  • A. Fergus McMaster
    Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman best known as a co-founder and early chairman of Qantas, helping to establish it as a pioneering national airline.
  • B. Frank McHugh
    Frank McHugh was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often playing comic sidekicks and supporting roles.
  • C. Jack McGowan
    Jack McGowan was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical "Babes in Arms."
  • D. Thomas McKay
    Thomas McKay was a 19th-century Scottish-born Canadian stonemason, entrepreneur, and early industrialist who played a key role in the development of Ottawa.
  • E. Ray McDonald
    Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • 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_69a88aa308a88190b0b86c011fda7fce completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc64b62a08190b5a415769ce42645 completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3be86dc8190af185bac9554e7d6 completed March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb46f882881909294a3698ead865e completed March 9, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb4c715a88190b1009a2cf1d95441 completed March 9, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:50 p.m.