Triple

T2459714
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canadian Film Centre E54501 entity
Predicate notableAlumniIncludes P7128 FINISHED
Object Don McKellar
Don McKellar is a Canadian actor, writer, and director known for his work on films such as "Last Night" and "The Red Violin," as well as his contributions to Canadian independent cinema and television.
E268069 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: Don McKellar | Statement: [Canadian Film Centre, notableAlumniIncludes, Don McKellar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don McKellar
Context triple: [Canadian Film Centre, notableAlumniIncludes, Don McKellar]
  • A. Stephen McHattie
    Stephen McHattie is a Canadian actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his appearance in the superhero film "Watchmen."
  • B. Matt Johnston
    Matt Johnston is a software developer best known as the creator and maintainer of the lightweight Dropbear SSH server and client suite.
  • C. Jason Beattie
    Jason Beattie is a music video director known for his work on the video for the song "Adorn."
  • D. Andrew Millar
    Andrew Millar was an 18th-century Scottish-born London bookseller and publisher known for issuing major works of Enlightenment authors, including David Hume.
  • E. Rich Harris
    Rich Harris is a software engineer and journalist best known for creating the Svelte JavaScript framework and his work on interactive data visualizations.
  • 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: Don McKellar
Triple: [Canadian Film Centre, notableAlumniIncludes, Don McKellar]
Generated description
Don McKellar is a Canadian actor, writer, and director known for his work on films such as "Last Night" and "The Red Violin," as well as his contributions to Canadian independent cinema and television.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don McKellar
Target entity description: Don McKellar is a Canadian actor, writer, and director known for his work on films such as "Last Night" and "The Red Violin," as well as his contributions to Canadian independent cinema and television.
  • A. Stephen McHattie
    Stephen McHattie is a Canadian actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his appearance in the superhero film "Watchmen."
  • B. Matt Johnston
    Matt Johnston is a software developer best known as the creator and maintainer of the lightweight Dropbear SSH server and client suite.
  • C. Jason Beattie
    Jason Beattie is a music video director known for his work on the video for the song "Adorn."
  • D. Andrew Millar
    Andrew Millar was an 18th-century Scottish-born London bookseller and publisher known for issuing major works of Enlightenment authors, including David Hume.
  • E. Rich Harris
    Rich Harris is a software engineer and journalist best known for creating the Svelte JavaScript framework and his work on interactive data visualizations.
  • 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_69ab49dee84c819096b50a0049c347ac completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd82f2020819086bbd321a750ce43 completed March 7, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aef0cff4248190832f75ce36a357e2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aef186935c81909301659a96e1a4e2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aef8272668819084626e890a49e1b3 completed March 9, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.