Triple

T4192115
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blink E89059 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Hettie MacDonald
Hettie MacDonald is a British film and television director best known for her work on projects such as the acclaimed Doctor Who episode "Blink."
E420306 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: Hettie MacDonald | Statement: [Blink, director, Hettie MacDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hettie MacDonald
Context triple: [Blink, director, Hettie MacDonald]
  • A. Margaret MacDonald
    Margaret MacDonald was a British socialist activist and feminist, known for her work in social reform and as the wife of future Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
  • B. Mary McDougall
    Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
  • C. Margaret McGregor
    Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
  • D. Margaret Durkan
    Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
  • E. Helen Muir
    Helen Muir was the daughter of famed naturalist and conservationist John Muir, who helped preserve and promote her father's legacy.
  • 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: Hettie MacDonald
Triple: [Blink, director, Hettie MacDonald]
Generated description
Hettie MacDonald is a British film and television director best known for her work on projects such as the acclaimed Doctor Who episode "Blink."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hettie MacDonald
Target entity description: Hettie MacDonald is a British film and television director best known for her work on projects such as the acclaimed Doctor Who episode "Blink."
  • A. Margaret MacDonald
    Margaret MacDonald was a British socialist activist and feminist, known for her work in social reform and as the wife of future Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
  • B. Mary McDougall
    Mary McDougall is known primarily as the daughter of American Revolutionary War officer and political leader Alexander McDougall.
  • C. Margaret McGregor
    Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
  • D. Margaret Durkan
    Margaret Durkan is a notable individual recognized for bearing the Durkan surname, likely distinguished in a professional, public, or cultural field.
  • E. Helen Muir
    Helen Muir was the daughter of famed naturalist and conservationist John Muir, who helped preserve and promote her father's legacy.
  • 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_69aed9569a4481908b6c1fcec2a11e21 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af034169f88190a8eb170ba6008b79 completed March 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b58a08bb6881909bdd7643626e1a64 completed March 14, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58a9497b88190a46afd8b1996fed9 completed March 14, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58b26e4208190b4ec30a3b635194b completed March 14, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m.