Triple
T4170580
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | An Unearthly Child |
E84551
|
entity |
| Predicate | director |
P255
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Waris Hussein
Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television and film director best known for directing the very first Doctor Who serial, "An Unearthly Child."
|
E417904
|
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: Waris Hussein | Statement: [An Unearthly Child, director, Waris Hussein]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waris Hussein Context triple: [An Unearthly Child, director, Waris Hussein]
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A.
Salih
Salih is a prophet in Islamic tradition who was sent to the ancient tribe of Thamud and is notably associated with the miracle of the she-camel.
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B.
Abdulbaset Sieda
Abdulbaset Sieda is a Syrian Kurdish academic and politician who served as a leading opposition figure and former head of the Syrian National Council during the uprising against Bashar al-Assad.
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C.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil
Mustafa Abdul Jalil is a Libyan politician and former justice minister who became a leading figure of the opposition and head of the National Transitional Council during the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
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D.
Ali Mahdi Muhammad
Ali Mahdi Muhammad was a Somali businessman and politician who served as a key faction leader during the Somali Civil War and held the presidency of Somalia in the early 1990s.
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E.
Hussein
Hussein is a common Arabic surname and given name, notably borne by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
- 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: Waris Hussein Triple: [An Unearthly Child, director, Waris Hussein]
Generated description
Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television and film director best known for directing the very first Doctor Who serial, "An Unearthly Child."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waris Hussein Target entity description: Waris Hussein is a British-Indian television and film director best known for directing the very first Doctor Who serial, "An Unearthly Child."
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A.
Salih
Salih is a prophet in Islamic tradition who was sent to the ancient tribe of Thamud and is notably associated with the miracle of the she-camel.
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B.
Abdulbaset Sieda
Abdulbaset Sieda is a Syrian Kurdish academic and politician who served as a leading opposition figure and former head of the Syrian National Council during the uprising against Bashar al-Assad.
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C.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil
Mustafa Abdul Jalil is a Libyan politician and former justice minister who became a leading figure of the opposition and head of the National Transitional Council during the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
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D.
Ali Mahdi Muhammad
Ali Mahdi Muhammad was a Somali businessman and politician who served as a key faction leader during the Somali Civil War and held the presidency of Somalia in the early 1990s.
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E.
Hussein
Hussein is a common Arabic surname and given name, notably borne by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
- 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_69aed932cab48190b80ffe35f7029ae1 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69af02c87cc88190a9ec3712db18a8a7 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 5:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b57f4ef1a08190a232ed94595a86e8 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 3:31 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b580e08e888190b48ddae4435c984a |
completed | March 14, 2026, 3:38 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b5817b52bc8190aba6863a9ef05acf |
completed | March 14, 2026, 3:40 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.