Triple

T5317572
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Magic Toyshop (1987 film) E121587 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object David Wheatley
David Wheatley was a British film and television director known for his adaptations of literary works, including several films based on Angela Carter’s stories.
E517478 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 Wheatley | Statement: [The Magic Toyshop (1987 film), director, David Wheatley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Wheatley
Context triple: [The Magic Toyshop (1987 film), director, David Wheatley]
  • A. Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
  • B. David Wardle
    David Wardle is an illustrator and graphic designer known for creating book cover art, including the cover of Boris Johnson’s novel "Seventy-Two Virgins."
  • C. Robert Cornthwaite
    Robert Cornthwaite was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction films and numerous television appearances.
  • D. Stephen Langridge
    Stephen Langridge is a British opera and theatre director known for leading major European opera institutions and for his innovative, often socially engaged productions.
  • E. George Witton
    George Witton was an Australian soldier involved in the controversial Boer War court-martial alongside Breaker Morant, later known for his memoir protesting the convictions.
  • 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 Wheatley
Triple: [The Magic Toyshop (1987 film), director, David Wheatley]
Generated description
David Wheatley was a British film and television director known for his adaptations of literary works, including several films based on Angela Carter’s stories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Wheatley
Target entity description: David Wheatley was a British film and television director known for his adaptations of literary works, including several films based on Angela Carter’s stories.
  • A. Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
  • B. David Wardle
    David Wardle is an illustrator and graphic designer known for creating book cover art, including the cover of Boris Johnson’s novel "Seventy-Two Virgins."
  • C. Robert Cornthwaite
    Robert Cornthwaite was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction films and numerous television appearances.
  • D. Stephen Langridge
    Stephen Langridge is a British opera and theatre director known for leading major European opera institutions and for his innovative, often socially engaged productions.
  • E. George Witton
    George Witton was an Australian soldier involved in the controversial Boer War court-martial alongside Breaker Morant, later known for his memoir protesting the convictions.
  • 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_69bd463d956c819088105c3db802c017 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd855269ac8190bb7a9248d04f1823 completed March 20, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf332d0c608190be0c8e740fe216b7 completed March 22, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf340a51848190b4722f456f997833 completed March 22, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf34714e808190b06b47891ea31bbf completed March 22, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:59 p.m.