Triple

T3377915
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Terror of the Autons E71110 entity
Predicate starsActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Courtney
Nicholas Courtney was a British actor best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
E373138 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: Nicholas Courtney | Statement: [Terror of the Autons, starsActor, Nicholas Courtney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Courtney
Context triple: [Terror of the Autons, starsActor, Nicholas Courtney]
  • A. Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
  • B. Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
  • C. Kenneth Cranham
    Kenneth Cranham is a Scottish character actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and theatre, often portraying authoritative or villainous roles.
  • D. Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • E. Nicol Williamson
    Nicol Williamson was a Scottish actor acclaimed for his intense stage and screen performances, notably in roles such as Merlin in "Excalibur" and the title character in "Hamlet."
  • 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: Nicholas Courtney
Triple: [Terror of the Autons, starsActor, Nicholas Courtney]
Generated description
Nicholas Courtney was a British actor best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Courtney
Target entity description: Nicholas Courtney was a British actor best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the classic science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • A. Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
  • B. Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
  • C. Kenneth Cranham
    Kenneth Cranham is a Scottish character actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and theatre, often portraying authoritative or villainous roles.
  • D. Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • E. Nicol Williamson
    Nicol Williamson was a Scottish actor acclaimed for his intense stage and screen performances, notably in roles such as Merlin in "Excalibur" and the title character in "Hamlet."
  • 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_69ad85a7f80c8190a05e43013f298942 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb2e8d1988190b6fb6c4c5502f25f completed March 8, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b432f118f48190a81795289a20efe5 completed March 13, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b436e75b6081908a64983955504af8 completed March 13, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b43aa17e048190a39eb22a5be9da0c completed March 13, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.