Triple

T4203986
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover E86137 entity
Predicate leadActor P1507 FINISHED
Object Alan Howard
Alan Howard was an English actor known for his distinguished stage career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles.
E423468 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: Alan Howard | Statement: [The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, leadActor, Alan Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Howard
Context triple: [The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, leadActor, Alan Howard]
  • A. Michael Ironside
    Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
  • B. Michael Hordern
    Michael Hordern was an English actor renowned for his distinguished stage and screen career, often noted for his Shakespearean roles and character work in British film and television.
  • C. Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • D. Michael Lonsdale
    Michael Lonsdale was a distinguished French-English actor known for his versatile performances in European cinema and Hollywood films, including roles in "The Day of the Jackal" and the James Bond film "Moonraker."
  • E. Michael Kane
    Michael Kane is a screenwriter best known for writing the 1983 American sports drama film "All the Right Moves."
  • 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: Alan Howard
Triple: [The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, leadActor, Alan Howard]
Generated description
Alan Howard was an English actor known for his distinguished stage career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Howard
Target entity description: Alan Howard was an English actor known for his distinguished stage career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and notable film roles.
  • A. Michael Ironside
    Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
  • B. Michael Hordern
    Michael Hordern was an English actor renowned for his distinguished stage and screen career, often noted for his Shakespearean roles and character work in British film and television.
  • C. Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • D. Michael Lonsdale
    Michael Lonsdale was a distinguished French-English actor known for his versatile performances in European cinema and Hollywood films, including roles in "The Day of the Jackal" and the James Bond film "Moonraker."
  • E. Michael Kane
    Michael Kane is a screenwriter best known for writing the 1983 American sports drama film "All the Right Moves."
  • 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_69aed93b89f48190a31f6d57c760e42f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0380d470819091ffdb1161437266 completed March 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5a84d00b8819082982c4d229c450e completed March 14, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5a983cfd88190b702c420d6dbc201 completed March 14, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5aa00bcd88190ad2fba212861c712 completed March 14, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.