Triple

T566193
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Master E13557 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
E80136 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: Anthony Ainley | Statement: [The Master, portrayedBy, Anthony Ainley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anthony Ainley
Context triple: [The Master, portrayedBy, Anthony Ainley]
  • A. Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
  • B. Alan Aldridge
    Alan Aldridge was a British illustrator and graphic designer famed for his vibrant, surreal artwork for 1960s and 1970s music and pop culture icons, including The Beatles and Elton John.
  • C. Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
  • D. Benjamin Whitrow
    Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
  • E. Hugh Fraser
    Hugh Fraser was a British Conservative politician and long-serving Member of Parliament who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Anthony Ainley
Triple: [The Master, portrayedBy, Anthony Ainley]
Generated description
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anthony Ainley
Target entity description: Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for playing the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • A. Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor best known for his role as Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s and for frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton.
  • B. Alan Aldridge
    Alan Aldridge was a British illustrator and graphic designer famed for his vibrant, surreal artwork for 1960s and 1970s music and pop culture icons, including The Beatles and Elton John.
  • C. Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
  • D. Benjamin Whitrow
    Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
  • E. Hugh Fraser
    Hugh Fraser was a British Conservative politician and long-serving Member of Parliament who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69a4933edcf08190b35ecfd6014caee6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b01aca48190944408d066519149 completed March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5740161cc81909a0086f7c541be98 completed March 2, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a57548510481908f4d0aa2f45485ce completed March 2, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a576df962c8190a0ce140a735393ea completed March 2, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.