Triple

T6662935
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bess Meredyth E151519 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object William McGlashen
William McGlashen was a relative of American screenwriter and silent-era film pioneer Bess Meredyth, though little else is widely documented about his life or career.
E624720 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: William McGlashen | Statement: [Bess Meredyth, relative, William McGlashen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McGlashen
Context triple: [Bess Meredyth, relative, William McGlashen]
  • A. Clarence Geldart
    Clarence Geldart was a Canadian-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • B. Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • C. John Burrows
    John Burrows is a fictional character featured in the 1951 British drama film "Journey into Light."
  • D. Philip Herriton
    Philip Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," depicted as a conventional, somewhat repressed Englishman whose experiences in Italy challenge his assumptions and emotional reserve.
  • E. Philip Meadows
    Philip Meadows was an English diplomat and government official active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • 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: William McGlashen
Triple: [Bess Meredyth, relative, William McGlashen]
Generated description
William McGlashen was a relative of American screenwriter and silent-era film pioneer Bess Meredyth, though little else is widely documented about his life or career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William McGlashen
Target entity description: William McGlashen was a relative of American screenwriter and silent-era film pioneer Bess Meredyth, though little else is widely documented about his life or career.
  • A. Clarence Geldart
    Clarence Geldart was a Canadian-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • B. Philip MacDonald
    Philip MacDonald was a British-born novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery fiction and his contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • C. John Burrows
    John Burrows is a fictional character featured in the 1951 British drama film "Journey into Light."
  • D. Philip Herriton
    Philip Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," depicted as a conventional, somewhat repressed Englishman whose experiences in Italy challenge his assumptions and emotional reserve.
  • E. Philip Meadows
    Philip Meadows was an English diplomat and government official active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • 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_69c687f5fac48190a09e4838d9c6b45d completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6b09a6fa88190ba8e454b9ad421a0 completed March 27, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c74237905c8190abb9b98a8c603662 completed March 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c743328d148190814372ce5217f9cd completed March 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7443919ec819089040e50462864d1 completed March 28, 2026, 3 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:02 p.m.