Triple

T5514048
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Wednesday Play E144637 entity
Predicate notableWriter P10455 FINISHED
Object David Mercer
David Mercer was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his socially and politically charged television dramas in the 1960s and 1970s.
E529527 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 Mercer | Statement: [The Wednesday Play, notableWriter, David Mercer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Mercer
Context triple: [The Wednesday Play, notableWriter, David Mercer]
  • A. Eric Davis
    Eric Davis is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his star tenure with the Cincinnati Reds, combining elite power, speed, and defense during the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • B. Todd Worrell
    Todd Worrell is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hard-throwing closer of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • C. Russell Dykstra
    Russell Dykstra is an Australian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including acclaimed performances in Australian cinema.
  • D. Gregg Barnes
    Gregg Barnes is a Tony Award–winning American costume designer renowned for his work on numerous Broadway productions and major stage musicals.
  • E. Tony Hunter
    Tony Hunter is the aging song-and-dance man protagonist of the classic 1953 MGM musical film "The Band Wagon," portrayed by Fred Astaire as he attempts to revive his fading career on Broadway.
  • 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 Mercer
Triple: [The Wednesday Play, notableWriter, David Mercer]
Generated description
David Mercer was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his socially and politically charged television dramas in the 1960s and 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Mercer
Target entity description: David Mercer was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter known for his socially and politically charged television dramas in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • A. Eric Davis
    Eric Davis is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his star tenure with the Cincinnati Reds, combining elite power, speed, and defense during the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • B. Todd Worrell
    Todd Worrell is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hard-throwing closer of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • C. Russell Dykstra
    Russell Dykstra is an Australian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including acclaimed performances in Australian cinema.
  • D. Gregg Barnes
    Gregg Barnes is a Tony Award–winning American costume designer renowned for his work on numerous Broadway productions and major stage musicals.
  • E. Tony Hunter
    Tony Hunter is the aging song-and-dance man protagonist of the classic 1953 MGM musical film "The Band Wagon," portrayed by Fred Astaire as he attempts to revive his fading career on Broadway.
  • 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_69c008f77ff88190b0cd50ca207295d1 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f5b4e988190b590b4157cf089c1 completed March 22, 2026, 4:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c027d52b808190ada94893b043fb19 completed March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c03847b3348190be97b7c5795df368 completed March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c038e148a0819080a306307e60d437 completed March 22, 2026, 6:45 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.