Triple

T3378190
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords E71116 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object The Toclafane
The Toclafane are a mysterious and terrifying race of spherical, cybernetic beings who serve as the Master’s deadly enforcers in the Doctor Who universe.
E354187 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: The Toclafane | Statement: [The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords, featuresCharacter, The Toclafane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Toclafane
Context triple: [The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords, featuresCharacter, The Toclafane]
  • A. Eidolon
    Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
  • B. Schmendiman
    Schmendiman is a comically overconfident, dim-witted inventor in Steve Martin’s play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," representing misguided modern ambition.
  • C. Blix
    Blix is a 19th-century novel by American naturalist writer Frank Norris that follows a young woman’s coming-of-age and romantic experiences in San Francisco.
  • D. Blix
    Blix is a Swedish surname most notably associated with Hans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and UN weapons inspector.
  • E. Gorgophone
    Gorgophone is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda and noted as one of the first women to remarry after being widowed.
  • 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: The Toclafane
Triple: [The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords, featuresCharacter, The Toclafane]
Generated description
The Toclafane are a mysterious and terrifying race of spherical, cybernetic beings who serve as the Master’s deadly enforcers in the Doctor Who universe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Toclafane
Target entity description: The Toclafane are a mysterious and terrifying race of spherical, cybernetic beings who serve as the Master’s deadly enforcers in the Doctor Who universe.
  • A. Eidolon
    Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
  • B. Schmendiman
    Schmendiman is a comically overconfident, dim-witted inventor in Steve Martin’s play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," representing misguided modern ambition.
  • C. Blix
    Blix is a 19th-century novel by American naturalist writer Frank Norris that follows a young woman’s coming-of-age and romantic experiences in San Francisco.
  • D. Blix
    Blix is a Swedish surname most notably associated with Hans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and UN weapons inspector.
  • E. Gorgophone
    Gorgophone is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda and noted as one of the first women to remarry after being widowed.
  • 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_69adb2eacb5c81908071a1dacc9a897a completed March 8, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3344c0698819082d856d8be7f2c18 completed March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b334e5171c8190a01bb6fef5644825 completed March 12, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3390c50b08190b6239b5f0d1eb4ba completed March 12, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.