Triple

T3416378
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways E72017 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Joe Ahearne
Joe Ahearne is a British television director and screenwriter best known for his work on the revived Doctor Who series and the supernatural drama Ultraviolet.
 E391520 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: Joe Ahearne | Statement: [Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways, director, Joe Ahearne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joe Ahearne
Context triple: [Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways, director, Joe Ahearne]
  • A. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • B. Ian Meakins
    Ian Meakins is a British business executive known for leading major multinational companies, including serving as chairman of Unilever.
  • C. Joe Seaward
    Joe Seaward is the drummer for the English indie rock band Glass Animals, known for his dynamic percussion and contributions to the group's distinctive sound.
  • D. Ray McKinnon
    Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
  • E. Graham O'Brien
    Graham O'Brien is a companion of the Thirteenth Doctor in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • 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: Joe Ahearne
Triple: [Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways, director, Joe Ahearne]
Generated description
Joe Ahearne is a British television director and screenwriter best known for his work on the revived Doctor Who series and the supernatural drama Ultraviolet.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joe Ahearne
Target entity description: Joe Ahearne is a British television director and screenwriter best known for his work on the revived Doctor Who series and the supernatural drama Ultraviolet.
  • A. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • B. Ian Meakins
    Ian Meakins is a British business executive known for leading major multinational companies, including serving as chairman of Unilever.
  • C. Joe Seaward
    Joe Seaward is the drummer for the English indie rock band Glass Animals, known for his dynamic percussion and contributions to the group's distinctive sound.
  • D. Ray McKinnon
    Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
  • E. Graham O'Brien
    Graham O'Brien is a companion of the Thirteenth Doctor in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • 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_69ad85ad38e48190b7660c5118a35289 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb92ae6148190958d6bb735258cab completed March 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4faec5fc4819090c8f55b819d436c completed March 14, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fc7abfb481908f563e17e6e57a4e completed March 14, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fce0a6a88190be19941a70caebdc completed March 14, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:15 p.m.