Triple

T4170582
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject An Unearthly Child E84551 entity
Predicate scriptEditor P48102 FINISHED
Object David Whitaker
David Whitaker was a British television writer and script editor best known as the first story editor of the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who.
 E417905 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: David Whitaker | Statement: [An Unearthly Child, scriptEditor, David Whitaker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Whitaker
Context triple: [An Unearthly Child, scriptEditor, David Whitaker]
  • A. Robert Whitman
    Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
  • B. Hugh Whitaker
    Hugh Whitaker is an English drummer best known for being the original drummer of the indie pop band The Housemartins in the 1980s.
  • C. William Burke-White
    William Burke-White is an American legal scholar and professor known for his work in international law, foreign policy, and global governance.
  • D. John Whiteaker
    John Whiteaker was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Oregon after it achieved statehood.
  • E. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • 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: David Whitaker
Triple: [An Unearthly Child, scriptEditor, David Whitaker]
Generated description
David Whitaker was a British television writer and script editor best known as the first story editor of the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Whitaker
Target entity description: David Whitaker was a British television writer and script editor best known as the first story editor of the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • A. Robert Whitman
    Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
  • B. Hugh Whitaker
    Hugh Whitaker is an English drummer best known for being the original drummer of the indie pop band The Housemartins in the 1980s.
  • C. William Burke-White
    William Burke-White is an American legal scholar and professor known for his work in international law, foreign policy, and global governance.
  • D. John Whiteaker
    John Whiteaker was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Oregon after it achieved statehood.
  • E. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • 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.