Triple

T5317589
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Magic Toyshop (1987 film) E121587 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object John Tams
John Tams is an English actor, musician, and folk singer best known for his work on the TV series "Sharpe" and his influential contributions to British folk music.
E522628 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: John Tams | Statement: [The Magic Toyshop (1987 film), castMember, John Tams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tams
Context triple: [The Magic Toyshop (1987 film), castMember, John Tams]
  • A. Thomas McGuire
    Thomas McGuire was a highly decorated American World War II fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his aerial combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • B. Lyndon Andrews
    Lyndon Andrews is a retired Trinidad and Tobago footballer who played as a midfielder and represented his country at international level.
  • C. Arthur Johnston
    Arthur Johnston was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on early Hollywood film scores and popular songs in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. Thomas McClary
    Thomas McClary is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the funk and soul band the Commodores.
  • E. Donald Johnston
    Donald Johnston was a 19th-century Scottish distiller best known for establishing the Laphroaig whisky distillery on the island of Islay.
  • 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: John Tams
Triple: [The Magic Toyshop (1987 film), castMember, John Tams]
Generated description
John Tams is an English actor, musician, and folk singer best known for his work on the TV series "Sharpe" and his influential contributions to British folk music.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tams
Target entity description: John Tams is an English actor, musician, and folk singer best known for his work on the TV series "Sharpe" and his influential contributions to British folk music.
  • A. Thomas McGuire
    Thomas McGuire was a highly decorated American World War II fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his aerial combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • B. Lyndon Andrews
    Lyndon Andrews is a retired Trinidad and Tobago footballer who played as a midfielder and represented his country at international level.
  • C. Arthur Johnston
    Arthur Johnston was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on early Hollywood film scores and popular songs in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. Thomas McClary
    Thomas McClary is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the funk and soul band the Commodores.
  • E. Donald Johnston
    Donald Johnston was a 19th-century Scottish distiller best known for establishing the Laphroaig whisky distillery on the island of Islay.
  • 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_69bf4871c22c8190986f12c2783f315a completed March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf49d0ec4881908e835642e2e20cc9 completed March 22, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf4a2c4748819080df9bb468fd9198 completed March 22, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:59 p.m.