Triple

T671605
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Torchwood E12982 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Rex Matheson
Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
E107812 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: Rex Matheson | Statement: [Torchwood, mainCharacter, Rex Matheson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rex Matheson
Context triple: [Torchwood, mainCharacter, Rex Matheson]
  • A. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • B. George L. Dahl
    George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
  • C. Kenneth Anderson
    Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
  • D. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • E. John McShain
    John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
  • 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: Rex Matheson
Triple: [Torchwood, mainCharacter, Rex Matheson]
Generated description
Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rex Matheson
Target entity description: Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
  • A. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • B. George L. Dahl
    George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
  • C. Kenneth Anderson
    Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
  • D. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • E. John McShain
    John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
  • 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_69a493355dec819098d4244b2fa34885 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a021b908819086f7cfe65def4728 completed March 1, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7cf498af4819085d494f85adf0825 completed March 4, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7cfe2e6ac8190ad26947771829f86 completed March 4, 2026, 6:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7d079234881908826bf24f3c2900a completed March 4, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.