Triple

T7288392
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stargate Atlantis E163931 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object David Hewlett
David Hewlett is a British-Canadian actor best known for his role as the brilliant but neurotic scientist Dr. Rodney McKay in the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
E653921 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: David Hewlett | Statement: [Stargate Atlantis, portrayedBy, David Hewlett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Hewlett
Context triple: [Stargate Atlantis, portrayedBy, David Hewlett]
  • A. Robert MacNeil
    Robert MacNeil is a Canadian-American journalist and author best known for co-creating and co-anchoring the long-running public television news program that became PBS NewsHour.
  • B. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson was a prominent American songwriter and composer of popular music and Broadway tunes during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • C. Tony Smith
    Tony Smith was an influential American sculptor and architect best known for his large-scale minimalist geometric sculptures.
  • D. Tony Smith
    Tony Smith is a highly regarded rugby league coach best known for his successful tenure in English club rugby, including leading the Leeds Rhinos to major titles.
  • E. Neil Johnston
    Neil Johnston was a dominant 1950s NBA center and Hall of Famer known for leading the league in scoring with the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • 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: David Hewlett
Triple: [Stargate Atlantis, portrayedBy, David Hewlett]
Generated description
David Hewlett is a British-Canadian actor best known for his role as the brilliant but neurotic scientist Dr. Rodney McKay in the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Hewlett
Target entity description: David Hewlett is a British-Canadian actor best known for his role as the brilliant but neurotic scientist Dr. Rodney McKay in the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis.
  • A. Robert MacNeil
    Robert MacNeil is a Canadian-American journalist and author best known for co-creating and co-anchoring the long-running public television news program that became PBS NewsHour.
  • B. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson was a prominent American songwriter and composer of popular music and Broadway tunes during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • C. Tony Smith
    Tony Smith was an influential American sculptor and architect best known for his large-scale minimalist geometric sculptures.
  • D. Tony Smith
    Tony Smith is a highly regarded rugby league coach best known for his successful tenure in English club rugby, including leading the Leeds Rhinos to major titles.
  • E. Neil Johnston
    Neil Johnston was a dominant 1950s NBA center and Hall of Famer known for leading the league in scoring with the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • 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_69c6886093b88190a254b1ce6db8bae7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eb6a73fc8190ae5ce81fd3e46d87 completed March 27, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7db4671e08190874d5e099e883509 completed March 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7dbc1ff0c8190bc7639a74a5d3af3 completed March 28, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7dc6873a081908ea4e953430ec20b completed March 28, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3 p.m.