Triple

T499275
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Railway Man E10363 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a British screenwriter and author known for his work on films such as "24 Hour Party People" and "Millions," as well as for writing acclaimed children's books.
E62133 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: Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Statement: [The Railway Man, screenwriter, Frank Cottrell-Boyce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Context triple: [The Railway Man, screenwriter, Frank Cottrell-Boyce]
  • A. Andrew Davies
    Andrew Davies is a renowned British screenwriter celebrated for his acclaimed television adaptations of classic literature, including numerous works by Jane Austen.
  • B. Claire Finn
    Claire Finn is a skilled and compassionate chief medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • C. James Howe Jr.
    James Howe Jr. was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Elizabeth Howe, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Simon Bird
    Simon Bird is an English actor and comedian best known for playing Will McKenzie in the sitcom "The Inbetweeners."
  • E. Zadie Smith
    Zadie Smith is a British novelist and essayist renowned for her critically acclaimed debut "White Teeth" and her incisive explorations of race, identity, and contemporary multicultural life.
  • 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: Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Triple: [The Railway Man, screenwriter, Frank Cottrell-Boyce]
Generated description
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a British screenwriter and author known for his work on films such as "24 Hour Party People" and "Millions," as well as for writing acclaimed children's books.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Target entity description: Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a British screenwriter and author known for his work on films such as "24 Hour Party People" and "Millions," as well as for writing acclaimed children's books.
  • A. Andrew Davies
    Andrew Davies is a renowned British screenwriter celebrated for his acclaimed television adaptations of classic literature, including numerous works by Jane Austen.
  • B. Claire Finn
    Claire Finn is a skilled and compassionate chief medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • C. James Howe Jr.
    James Howe Jr. was a 17th-century New England colonist known primarily as the husband of Elizabeth Howe, one of the women executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Simon Bird
    Simon Bird is an English actor and comedian best known for playing Will McKenzie in the sitcom "The Inbetweeners."
  • E. Zadie Smith
    Zadie Smith is a British novelist and essayist renowned for her critically acclaimed debut "White Teeth" and her incisive explorations of race, identity, and contemporary multicultural life.
  • 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_69a2e847df8481909239ec08ccf1e376 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f119b14c8190a5a6b119579c2682 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a481f1ee28819087e90028b89e877e completed March 1, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a482749e78819093f8f81090eedfa2 completed March 1, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a483073dcc8190b05f89a81207d3d2 completed March 1, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.