Triple

T5320237
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Drake E121654 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Alfred Sinclair Alderdice
Alfred Sinclair Alderdice was the birth name of Canadian actor Tom Drake, best known for his role as "the boy next door" in the classic film *Meet Me in St. Louis*.
E516228 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: Alfred Sinclair Alderdice | Statement: [Tom Drake, birthName, Alfred Sinclair Alderdice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Sinclair Alderdice
Context triple: [Tom Drake, birthName, Alfred Sinclair Alderdice]
  • A. Oswald Millbank
    Oswald Millbank is a character in Benjamin Disraeli’s novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," notable as the wealthy industrialist’s son whose friendship with the aristocratic hero highlights class and political tensions in 19th-century England.
  • B. Basil Henson
    Basil Henson was a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Percy William Pickering
    Percy William Pickering was the father of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.
  • D. William Thomas Brande
    William Thomas Brande was a 19th-century English chemist known for his influential textbooks and contributions to chemical education and nomenclature.
  • E. Robert MacNaughton
    Robert MacNaughton is an American actor best known for playing Michael, the older brother, in the classic 1982 science fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
  • 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: Alfred Sinclair Alderdice
Triple: [Tom Drake, birthName, Alfred Sinclair Alderdice]
Generated description
Alfred Sinclair Alderdice was the birth name of Canadian actor Tom Drake, best known for his role as "the boy next door" in the classic film *Meet Me in St. Louis*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Sinclair Alderdice
Target entity description: Alfred Sinclair Alderdice was the birth name of Canadian actor Tom Drake, best known for his role as "the boy next door" in the classic film *Meet Me in St. Louis*.
  • A. Oswald Millbank
    Oswald Millbank is a character in Benjamin Disraeli’s novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," notable as the wealthy industrialist’s son whose friendship with the aristocratic hero highlights class and political tensions in 19th-century England.
  • B. Basil Henson
    Basil Henson was a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Percy William Pickering
    Percy William Pickering was the father of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.
  • D. William Thomas Brande
    William Thomas Brande was a 19th-century English chemist known for his influential textbooks and contributions to chemical education and nomenclature.
  • E. Robert MacNaughton
    Robert MacNaughton is an American actor best known for playing Michael, the older brother, in the classic 1982 science fiction film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
  • 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_69bd8574c4b48190a0513ce59eedb564 completed March 20, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf290bb4148190b6f98fcd36d03c02 completed March 21, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf2a23ba1881909ddc549728bbc2d3 completed March 21, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2e6d5f9081908327dff0058241f0 completed March 21, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:59 p.m.