Triple

T5398842
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Great Escape E120723 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object James Donald
James Donald was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films, particularly war dramas such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "The Great Escape."
 E519196 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: James Donald | Statement: [The Great Escape, starring, James Donald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Donald
Context triple: [The Great Escape, starring, James Donald]
  • A. Clive Brook
    Clive Brook was a British film actor best known as a suave leading man in early Hollywood and British cinema during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. William Atherton
    William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
  • C. Colin Watkinson
    Colin Watkinson is a British cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on films and television series such as The Fall and The Handmaid's Tale.
  • D. Warren Duff
    Warren Duff was an American screenwriter and film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for his work on numerous crime dramas and film noirs.
  • E. Ron Todd
    Ron Todd is an American politician who served as the Kansas Insurance Commissioner before Kathleen Sebelius.
  • 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: James Donald
Triple: [The Great Escape, starring, James Donald]
Generated description
James Donald was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films, particularly war dramas such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "The Great Escape."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Donald
Target entity description: James Donald was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic mid-20th-century films, particularly war dramas such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "The Great Escape."
  • A. Clive Brook
    Clive Brook was a British film actor best known as a suave leading man in early Hollywood and British cinema during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. William Atherton
    William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
  • C. Colin Watkinson
    Colin Watkinson is a British cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on films and television series such as The Fall and The Handmaid's Tale.
  • D. Warren Duff
    Warren Duff was an American screenwriter and film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for his work on numerous crime dramas and film noirs.
  • E. Ron Todd
    Ron Todd is an American politician who served as the Kansas Insurance Commissioner before Kathleen Sebelius.
  • 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_69bd4637b92c8190b815b6443ae4b323 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd87499ec4819086f8292625b56f96 completed March 20, 2026, 5:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3a9e104881908d6012c87f30061b completed March 22, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3ba6784081908b19717290b7ba3d completed March 22, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3c1ad4d8819093aeb94f62eb1086 completed March 22, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:04 p.m.