Triple

T5286581
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1776 (film) E119632 entity
Predicate leadActor P1507 FINISHED
Object David Ford
David Ford was an American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including a leading role in the historical film "1776."
E509028 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: David Ford | Statement: [1776 (film), leadActor, David Ford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Ford
Context triple: [1776 (film), leadActor, David Ford]
  • A. David Ford
    David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
  • B. Jonathan Ford
    Jonathan Ford is a senior naval officer and executive officer aboard the seaQuest DSV in the science fiction television series "seaQuest DSV."
  • C. Daniel Ford
    Daniel Ford was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for shaping the influential family magazine The Youth's Companion.
  • D. Paul Ford
    Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
  • E. David Hartnett
    David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
  • 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: David Ford
Triple: [1776 (film), leadActor, David Ford]
Generated description
David Ford was an American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including a leading role in the historical film "1776."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Ford
Target entity description: David Ford was an American actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, including a leading role in the historical film "1776."
  • A. David Ford
    David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
  • B. Jonathan Ford
    Jonathan Ford is a senior naval officer and executive officer aboard the seaQuest DSV in the science fiction television series "seaQuest DSV."
  • C. Daniel Ford
    Daniel Ford was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for shaping the influential family magazine The Youth's Companion.
  • D. Paul Ford
    Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
  • E. David Hartnett
    David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
  • 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_69bd446de5648190b313a90bd96730d2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84d9a0788190a4a85a9cab07903f completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf06e98e48819091c666cf7872a7f8 completed March 21, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf0af33a088190a9302dfcfa632155 completed March 21, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf0b5143148190acf674627ff951ca completed March 21, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.