Triple

T4268914
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shanghai Express E96891 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Lawrence Grant
Lawrence Grant was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in early 20th-century Hollywood films.
 E430923 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: Lawrence Grant | Statement: [Shanghai Express, starring, Lawrence Grant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lawrence Grant
Context triple: [Shanghai Express, starring, Lawrence Grant]
  • A. Lawrence Guth
    Lawrence Guth is an American mathematician known for his influential work in harmonic analysis, combinatorial geometry, and incidence geometry.
  • B. Lawrence Fassett
    Lawrence Fassett is a manipulative CIA operative who orchestrates a deadly surveillance scheme in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
  • C. Red Grant
    Red Grant is a ruthless, psychopathic assassin and primary antagonist in the James Bond franchise, most prominently appearing as SPECTRE’s top killer in the film and novel "From Russia, with Love."
  • D. Lawrence Grant White
    Lawrence Grant White was an American architect and partner in the prominent firm McKim, Mead & White, known for continuing his father Stanford White’s architectural legacy.
  • E. Lawrence Smith
    Lawrence Smith is one of the children of bestselling adventure novelist Wilbur Smith.
  • 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: Lawrence Grant
Triple: [Shanghai Express, starring, Lawrence Grant]
Generated description
Lawrence Grant was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in early 20th-century Hollywood films.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lawrence Grant
Target entity description: Lawrence Grant was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in early 20th-century Hollywood films.
  • A. Lawrence Guth
    Lawrence Guth is an American mathematician known for his influential work in harmonic analysis, combinatorial geometry, and incidence geometry.
  • B. Lawrence Fassett
    Lawrence Fassett is a manipulative CIA operative who orchestrates a deadly surveillance scheme in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
  • C. Red Grant
    Red Grant is a ruthless, psychopathic assassin and primary antagonist in the James Bond franchise, most prominently appearing as SPECTRE’s top killer in the film and novel "From Russia, with Love."
  • D. Lawrence Grant White
    Lawrence Grant White was an American architect and partner in the prominent firm McKim, Mead & White, known for continuing his father Stanford White’s architectural legacy.
  • E. Lawrence Smith
    Lawrence Smith is one of the children of bestselling adventure novelist Wilbur Smith.
  • 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_69b34543f06c8190915ebb1a4574ffa9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34ff913608190b6ccf4a85057b07b completed March 12, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5d0665b548190b6a26cda97cb7f9b completed March 14, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5d12a54e0819081379fd1ee85914b completed March 14, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5d194975481908b029ab106223c6c completed March 14, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:07 p.m.