Triple

T7659513
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steptoe and Son E173467 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Albert Steptoe
Albert Steptoe is a cantankerous, manipulative rag-and-bone man from the British sitcom "Steptoe and Son," known for his squalid lifestyle and constant bickering with his son Harold.
E681005 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: Albert Steptoe | Statement: [Steptoe and Son, mainCharacter, Albert Steptoe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Albert Steptoe
Context triple: [Steptoe and Son, mainCharacter, Albert Steptoe]
  • A. Philip Stainton
    Philip Stainton was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films, including the adventure drama "Mogambo."
  • B. Roy Biggins
    Roy Biggins is a scheming, boorish rival airline owner and recurring antagonist on the sitcom "Wings."
  • C. Fred Jowett
    Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
  • D. Joseph Arnold
    Joseph Arnold was a British surgeon and naturalist from the early 19th century, best known for his role in the discovery of the giant parasitic flower later named Rafflesia arnoldii.
  • E. William Sidney Lovell-Smith
    William Sidney Lovell-Smith was a New Zealand printer and suffrage supporter best known as the husband and collaborator of leading women's rights activist Kate Sheppard.
  • 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: Albert Steptoe
Triple: [Steptoe and Son, mainCharacter, Albert Steptoe]
Generated description
Albert Steptoe is a cantankerous, manipulative rag-and-bone man from the British sitcom "Steptoe and Son," known for his squalid lifestyle and constant bickering with his son Harold.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Albert Steptoe
Target entity description: Albert Steptoe is a cantankerous, manipulative rag-and-bone man from the British sitcom "Steptoe and Son," known for his squalid lifestyle and constant bickering with his son Harold.
  • A. Philip Stainton
    Philip Stainton was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films, including the adventure drama "Mogambo."
  • B. Roy Biggins
    Roy Biggins is a scheming, boorish rival airline owner and recurring antagonist on the sitcom "Wings."
  • C. Fred Jowett
    Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
  • D. Joseph Arnold
    Joseph Arnold was a British surgeon and naturalist from the early 19th century, best known for his role in the discovery of the giant parasitic flower later named Rafflesia arnoldii.
  • E. William Sidney Lovell-Smith
    William Sidney Lovell-Smith was a New Zealand printer and suffrage supporter best known as the husband and collaborator of leading women's rights activist Kate Sheppard.
  • 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_69c69955517c819085bc715b96d304d2 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701a32f588190a7a923e8ce43f727 completed March 27, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8a21dd3088190bb026de65970a14b completed March 29, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8a2ed6a7c8190b5445d8dfd10166d completed March 29, 2026, 3:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8a3937dd08190a1f9e589185a0f93 completed March 29, 2026, 3:59 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:59 p.m.