Triple

T5143600
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Star Trek: The Motion Picture E116016 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object James Doohan
James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
E502591 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: James Doohan | Statement: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, starring, James Doohan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Doohan
Context triple: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, starring, James Doohan]
  • A. Walter Koenig
    Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
  • B. William Shatner
    William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
  • C. Leonard Nimoy
    Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
  • D. James McDivitt
    James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
  • E. David Hedison
    David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
  • 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: James Doohan
Triple: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, starring, James Doohan]
Generated description
James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Doohan
Target entity description: James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
  • A. Walter Koenig
    Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
  • B. William Shatner
    William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
  • C. Leonard Nimoy
    Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
  • D. James McDivitt
    James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
  • E. David Hedison
    David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
  • 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_69bd4446c0e08190a7c29dc74976bf03 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7883004881909c763da818d9b6e2 completed March 20, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beefa31458819094b53cbc7a2f5677 completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef097f5e48190b8a28995f345c764 completed March 21, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef0f0ceb081908600d75b6e52f45a completed March 21, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.