Triple

T6438100
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Ballad of Jack and Rose E129948 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Ryan McDonald
Ryan McDonald is a Canadian actor known for his work in independent films and television, including a role in the drama "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
E597709 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: Ryan McDonald | Statement: [The Ballad of Jack and Rose, castMember, Ryan McDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ryan McDonald
Context triple: [The Ballad of Jack and Rose, castMember, Ryan McDonald]
  • A. Trevor McDonald
    Trevor McDonald is a renowned British newsreader and journalist, best known as one of the most prominent and pioneering Black broadcasters on UK television.
  • B. Ray McDonald
    Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • C. Kevin McDonald
    Kevin McDonald is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer best known as one of the founding members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • D. Chris MacNeil
    Chris MacNeil is a successful actress and devoted mother whose desperate struggle to save her demon-possessed daughter drives the horror and emotional core of *The Exorcist*.
  • E. Chris McIntosh
    Chris McIntosh is a former Wisconsin Badgers All-American offensive lineman who became the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s athletic director.
  • 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: Ryan McDonald
Triple: [The Ballad of Jack and Rose, castMember, Ryan McDonald]
Generated description
Ryan McDonald is a Canadian actor known for his work in independent films and television, including a role in the drama "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ryan McDonald
Target entity description: Ryan McDonald is a Canadian actor known for his work in independent films and television, including a role in the drama "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."
  • A. Trevor McDonald
    Trevor McDonald is a renowned British newsreader and journalist, best known as one of the most prominent and pioneering Black broadcasters on UK television.
  • B. Ray McDonald
    Ray McDonald was an American actor and dancer known for his musical film roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • C. Kevin McDonald
    Kevin McDonald is a Canadian comedian, actor, and writer best known as one of the founding members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • D. Chris MacNeil
    Chris MacNeil is a successful actress and devoted mother whose desperate struggle to save her demon-possessed daughter drives the horror and emotional core of *The Exorcist*.
  • E. Chris McIntosh
    Chris McIntosh is a former Wisconsin Badgers All-American offensive lineman who became the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s athletic director.
  • 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_69c0084caac48190a7bc2ad8ba44536f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06965a5d48190a5860da9e22dc6e0 completed March 22, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c65fc86d0c8190a254126255a7af1b completed March 27, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c660ae1ae48190941b4e0fc1fa6bea completed March 27, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6615b639c8190af0073368e55ab8d completed March 27, 2026, 10:52 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:45 p.m.