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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
John Burrows
John Burrows is a fictional character featured in the 1951 British drama film "Journey into Light."
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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.
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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.
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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.