Triple

T3820228
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mars (TV series) E84352 entity
Predicate mainCastMember P5563 FINISHED
Object Ben Cotton
Ben Cotton is a Canadian actor known for his roles in science fiction and genre television series and films.
E393306 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: Ben Cotton | Statement: [Mars (TV series), mainCastMember, Ben Cotton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Cotton
Context triple: [Mars (TV series), mainCastMember, Ben Cotton]
  • A. Anthony Peckham
    Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
  • B. Christopher Benstead
    Christopher Benstead is a British composer and music editor known for his film scores and sound work on major movies, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
  • C. Kent Bateman
    Kent Bateman is an American film and television producer, director, and actor, best known as the father of actor Jason Bateman and for his work in low-budget and independent productions.
  • D. Brian Charlesworth
    Brian Charlesworth is a prominent British evolutionary biologist renowned for his influential work on population genetics and the evolution of genetic systems.
  • E. Michael Foale
    Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
  • 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: Ben Cotton
Triple: [Mars (TV series), mainCastMember, Ben Cotton]
Generated description
Ben Cotton is a Canadian actor known for his roles in science fiction and genre television series and films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Cotton
Target entity description: Ben Cotton is a Canadian actor known for his roles in science fiction and genre television series and films.
  • A. Anthony Peckham
    Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
  • B. Christopher Benstead
    Christopher Benstead is a British composer and music editor known for his film scores and sound work on major movies, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
  • C. Kent Bateman
    Kent Bateman is an American film and television producer, director, and actor, best known as the father of actor Jason Bateman and for his work in low-budget and independent productions.
  • D. Brian Charlesworth
    Brian Charlesworth is a prominent British evolutionary biologist renowned for his influential work on population genetics and the evolution of genetic systems.
  • E. Michael Foale
    Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
  • 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_69aed931f5908190be2c07af66d4df25 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeea61a63c819086e16b89d2ea2157 completed March 9, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b503f75f6c8190b9af77ed212a2774 completed March 14, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b504a31de08190b543549a2b05b038 completed March 14, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5084c8bd48190b7afc80bed196c90 completed March 14, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:17 p.m.