Triple

T2658567
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject This Boy's Life E54671 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
E293660 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: Michael Caton-Jones | Statement: [This Boy's Life, director, Michael Caton-Jones]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Caton-Jones
Context triple: [This Boy's Life, director, Michael Caton-Jones]
  • A. Iain Softley
    Iain Softley is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Backbeat," "Hackers," and "The Wings of the Dove."
  • B. Mike Donovan
    Mike Donovan is a recurring human character in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known as a field tester and troubleshooter who works closely with experimental robots.
  • C. David Leslie
    David Leslie was a 17th-century Scottish general and Covenanter leader best known for commanding Scottish forces against Oliver Cromwell during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • D. Oliver Parker
    Oliver Parker is a British filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing literary adaptations such as the 1995 film version of Shakespeare’s "Othello."
  • E. Dexter Fletcher
    Dexter Fletcher is a British actor and film director known for directing movies such as "Rocketman" and for his long career in UK television and cinema.
  • 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: Michael Caton-Jones
Triple: [This Boy's Life, director, Michael Caton-Jones]
Generated description
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Caton-Jones
Target entity description: Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
  • A. Iain Softley
    Iain Softley is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for movies such as "Backbeat," "Hackers," and "The Wings of the Dove."
  • B. Mike Donovan
    Mike Donovan is a recurring human character in Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, known as a field tester and troubleshooter who works closely with experimental robots.
  • C. David Leslie
    David Leslie was a 17th-century Scottish general and Covenanter leader best known for commanding Scottish forces against Oliver Cromwell during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • D. Oliver Parker
    Oliver Parker is a British filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing literary adaptations such as the 1995 film version of Shakespeare’s "Othello."
  • E. Dexter Fletcher
    Dexter Fletcher is a British actor and film director known for directing movies such as "Rocketman" and for his long career in UK television and cinema.
  • 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_69ab49e028948190b97e01d73548b1d9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd94dcaa48190aec625f68ce61a02 completed March 7, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afb674ed4c8190a398fccdbd30e9c2 completed March 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb7c0ac9c819088939e2a20e74c24 completed March 10, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb84d36488190b49b05f2d5398627 completed March 10, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.