Triple

T4207091
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lady Vanishes E93808 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Basil Radford
Basil Radford was an English character actor best known for his comic supporting roles in British films of the 1930s and 1940s, often playing affable, cricket-obsessed gentlemen.
E421293 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: Basil Radford | Statement: [The Lady Vanishes, starring, Basil Radford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Basil Radford
Context triple: [The Lady Vanishes, starring, Basil Radford]
  • A. Basil Ransom
    Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer and the central male protagonist in Henry James’s novel "The Bostonians," whose traditional views sharply contrast with the book’s feminist themes.
  • B. Basil March
    Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
  • C. Sam Farrar
    Sam Farrar is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a touring and later official member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
  • D. Roderick Kinney
    Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
  • E. Cator Woolford
    Cator Woolford was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the credit reporting company that became Equifax.
  • 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: Basil Radford
Triple: [The Lady Vanishes, starring, Basil Radford]
Generated description
Basil Radford was an English character actor best known for his comic supporting roles in British films of the 1930s and 1940s, often playing affable, cricket-obsessed gentlemen.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Basil Radford
Target entity description: Basil Radford was an English character actor best known for his comic supporting roles in British films of the 1930s and 1940s, often playing affable, cricket-obsessed gentlemen.
  • A. Basil Ransom
    Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer and the central male protagonist in Henry James’s novel "The Bostonians," whose traditional views sharply contrast with the book’s feminist themes.
  • B. Basil March
    Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
  • C. Sam Farrar
    Sam Farrar is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a touring and later official member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
  • D. Roderick Kinney
    Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
  • E. Cator Woolford
    Cator Woolford was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the credit reporting company that became Equifax.
  • 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_69b3451743608190808f41d17ccf2650 completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3480cfacc81909a2705eb4e9ce8c1 completed March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b59628da008190ae0e458ed3a5890b completed March 14, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b596b7330081908c66a5a756531ffd completed March 14, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b59762105481908e3534600486b82d completed March 14, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:03 p.m.