Triple

T3378209
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords E71116 entity
Predicate featuresActor P15562 FINISHED
Object John Normington
John Normington was an English character actor known for his extensive work in British television, film, and theatre, including multiple appearances in the Doctor Who franchise.
E354194 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: John Normington | Statement: [The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords, featuresActor, John Normington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Normington
Context triple: [The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords, featuresActor, John Normington]
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. John Brotherton
    John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
  • C. William Lambton
    William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
  • D. John Raithby
    John Raithby was a British legal writer and editor best known for his work on authoritative compilations of English statutes in the early 19th century.
  • E. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • 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: John Normington
Triple: [The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords, featuresActor, John Normington]
Generated description
John Normington was an English character actor known for his extensive work in British television, film, and theatre, including multiple appearances in the Doctor Who franchise.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Normington
Target entity description: John Normington was an English character actor known for his extensive work in British television, film, and theatre, including multiple appearances in the Doctor Who franchise.
  • A. William Kirkpatrick
    William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
  • B. John Brotherton
    John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
  • C. William Lambton
    William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
  • D. John Raithby
    John Raithby was a British legal writer and editor best known for his work on authoritative compilations of English statutes in the early 19th century.
  • E. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • 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.