Triple

T5514051
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Wednesday Play E144637 entity
Predicate notableDirector P4744 FINISHED
Object Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke was a British television and film director renowned for his gritty, socially realist dramas and influential work for the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s.
E542254 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: Alan Clarke | Statement: [The Wednesday Play, notableDirector, Alan Clarke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Clarke
Context triple: [The Wednesday Play, notableDirector, Alan Clarke]
  • A. Dennis Potter
    Dennis Potter was a groundbreaking British television dramatist and screenwriter renowned for his innovative, psychologically rich works that often blended fantasy and reality.
  • B. Robert Holmes
    Robert Holmes was a prolific British television scriptwriter best known for his influential and imaginative work on the science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • C. Alan Bennett
    Alan Bennett is an acclaimed British playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author known for works such as "The History Boys," "Talking Heads," and "The Madness of King George."
  • D. Roy Clarke
    Roy Clarke is a British television comedy writer best known for creating the long-running sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine."
  • E. Dudley Simpson
    Dudley Simpson was an Australian composer best known for his prolific and influential music scores for the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • 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: Alan Clarke
Triple: [The Wednesday Play, notableDirector, Alan Clarke]
Generated description
Alan Clarke was a British television and film director renowned for his gritty, socially realist dramas and influential work for the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Clarke
Target entity description: Alan Clarke was a British television and film director renowned for his gritty, socially realist dramas and influential work for the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • A. Dennis Potter
    Dennis Potter was a groundbreaking British television dramatist and screenwriter renowned for his innovative, psychologically rich works that often blended fantasy and reality.
  • B. Robert Holmes
    Robert Holmes was a prolific British television scriptwriter best known for his influential and imaginative work on the science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • C. Alan Bennett
    Alan Bennett is an acclaimed British playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author known for works such as "The History Boys," "Talking Heads," and "The Madness of King George."
  • D. Roy Clarke
    Roy Clarke is a British television comedy writer best known for creating the long-running sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine."
  • E. Dudley Simpson
    Dudley Simpson was an Australian composer best known for his prolific and influential music scores for the classic British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • 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_69c059d3494c8190b20e57ec4d73d3fa completed March 22, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05e02edc48190938613946f19df01 completed March 22, 2026, 9:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c06209c3588190a6ededf9c198d5c5 completed March 22, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.