Triple

T5317771
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New Tricks E121592 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Jack Halford
Jack Halford is a retired detective and one of the central members of the cold case-solving team in the British television series "New Tricks."
 E511845 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: Jack Halford | Statement: [New Tricks, mainCharacter, Jack Halford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jack Halford
Context triple: [New Tricks, mainCharacter, Jack Halford]
  • A. Philip Pugh
    Philip Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Pugh.
  • B. Ralph Macfadyen
    Ralph Macfadyen is a child of British actor Matthew Macfadyen and his wife, actress Keeley Hawes.
  • C. Paul Kaye
    Paul Kaye is a British actor and comedian best known for his outrageous TV persona Dennis Pennis and roles in series such as Game of Thrones and After Life.
  • D. Ken Darby
    Ken Darby was an American composer, vocal arranger, and conductor known for his work on numerous Hollywood film scores and for winning multiple Academy Awards for his contributions to cinema music.
  • E. Paul Everingham
    Paul Everingham is an Australian politician best known for serving as the first Chief Minister of the Northern Territory following the granting of self-government.
  • 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: Jack Halford
Triple: [New Tricks, mainCharacter, Jack Halford]
Generated description
Jack Halford is a retired detective and one of the central members of the cold case-solving team in the British television series "New Tricks."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jack Halford
Target entity description: Jack Halford is a retired detective and one of the central members of the cold case-solving team in the British television series "New Tricks."
  • A. Philip Pugh
    Philip Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Pugh.
  • B. Ralph Macfadyen
    Ralph Macfadyen is a child of British actor Matthew Macfadyen and his wife, actress Keeley Hawes.
  • C. Paul Kaye
    Paul Kaye is a British actor and comedian best known for his outrageous TV persona Dennis Pennis and roles in series such as Game of Thrones and After Life.
  • D. Ken Darby
    Ken Darby was an American composer, vocal arranger, and conductor known for his work on numerous Hollywood film scores and for winning multiple Academy Awards for his contributions to cinema music.
  • E. Paul Everingham
    Paul Everingham is an Australian politician best known for serving as the first Chief Minister of the Northern Territory following the granting of self-government.
  • 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_69bf188d3a2c8190ad06d1b71ef73780 completed March 21, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf195d26e88190b86c16cd6adc7c5c completed March 21, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1a0bbed08190bf21bd99343b90a4 completed March 21, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:59 p.m.