Triple

T3621574
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Megamind E76738 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Tom McGrath
Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
 E413529 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: Tom McGrath | Statement: [Megamind, director, Tom McGrath]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom McGrath
Context triple: [Megamind, director, Tom McGrath]
  • A. John McGrath
    John McGrath is a British theatre director and arts leader known for his innovative, socially engaged work in UK theatre and festivals.
  • B. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • C. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • D. Tony Geraghty
    Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
  • E. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • 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: Tom McGrath
Triple: [Megamind, director, Tom McGrath]
Generated description
Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom McGrath
Target entity description: Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
  • A. John McGrath
    John McGrath is a British theatre director and arts leader known for his innovative, socially engaged work in UK theatre and festivals.
  • B. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • C. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • D. Tony Geraghty
    Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
  • E. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • 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_69ad85dae2fc81908d1ceadbc6af0089 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc2bb12cc8190bd67597cf3b66a3a completed March 8, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b316140819089c90f3e2bd81ad8 completed March 14, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56f05a6d48190a5bf5b5279134dc8 completed March 14, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b56f5253c88190baef7397d60aa300 completed March 14, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.