Triple

T6515131
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sandwich Man E148237 entity
Predicate writtenBy P806 FINISHED
Object Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine was a British comedian, actor, and founding member of The Goon Show, known for his inventive and often surreal humor in radio, television, and film.
 E603752 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: Michael Bentine | Statement: [The Sandwich Man, writtenBy, Michael Bentine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michael Bentine
Context triple: [The Sandwich Man, writtenBy, Michael Bentine]
  • A. Ernest Merritt
    Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
  • B. David Arnold
    David Arnold is a British film composer best known for his work on several James Bond soundtracks and other major Hollywood films.
  • C. David Hartnett
    David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
  • D. Geoffrey Haredale
    Geoffrey Haredale is a brooding Catholic landowner and central figure in Charles Dickens’s historical novel "Barnaby Rudge," whose family tragedy and simmering feud drive much of the story’s tension.
  • E. Colin Wright
    Colin Wright is known primarily as the son of acclaimed American college basketball coach Jay Wright.
  • 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: Michael Bentine
Triple: [The Sandwich Man, writtenBy, Michael Bentine]
Generated description
Michael Bentine was a British comedian, actor, and founding member of The Goon Show, known for his inventive and often surreal humor in radio, television, and film.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Michael Bentine
Target entity description: Michael Bentine was a British comedian, actor, and founding member of The Goon Show, known for his inventive and often surreal humor in radio, television, and film.
  • A. Ernest Merritt
    Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
  • B. David Arnold
    David Arnold is a British film composer best known for his work on several James Bond soundtracks and other major Hollywood films.
  • C. David Hartnett
    David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
  • D. Geoffrey Haredale
    Geoffrey Haredale is a brooding Catholic landowner and central figure in Charles Dickens’s historical novel "Barnaby Rudge," whose family tragedy and simmering feud drive much of the story’s tension.
  • E. Colin Wright
    Colin Wright is known primarily as the son of acclaimed American college basketball coach Jay Wright.
  • 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_69c687e68e748190baceb9298f32d3ed completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ac0bea808190aebc2905fb53eeba completed March 27, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6d5125c448190bf47843fcac66efe completed March 27, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6d6aba9688190ada4f921768e314e completed March 27, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6d82d77388190a3022a2366a5aec7 completed March 27, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:44 p.m.