Triple

T7692503
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject You Could Have It So Much Better E174282 entity
Predicate writer P1360 FINISHED
Object Nick McCarthy
Nick McCarthy is a German-born British musician best known as the guitarist and co-songwriter for the indie rock band Franz Ferdinand.
E686083 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: Nick McCarthy | Statement: [You Could Have It So Much Better, writer, Nick McCarthy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick McCarthy
Context triple: [You Could Have It So Much Better, writer, Nick McCarthy]
  • A. Mark McDermott
    Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
  • B. Tom McGrath
    Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
  • C. Kevin McLaughlin
    Kevin McLaughlin is a literary scholar and translator known for his English translation of Walter Benjamin’s "The Arcades Project."
  • D. Michael McCusker
    Michael McCusker is an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
  • E. Brian McHugh
    Brian McHugh is a fictional character appearing in the 1928 silent drama film "Mother Machree."
  • 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: Nick McCarthy
Triple: [You Could Have It So Much Better, writer, Nick McCarthy]
Generated description
Nick McCarthy is a German-born British musician best known as the guitarist and co-songwriter for the indie rock band Franz Ferdinand.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick McCarthy
Target entity description: Nick McCarthy is a German-born British musician best known as the guitarist and co-songwriter for the indie rock band Franz Ferdinand.
  • A. Mark McDermott
    Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
  • B. Tom McGrath
    Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
  • C. Kevin McLaughlin
    Kevin McLaughlin is a literary scholar and translator known for his English translation of Walter Benjamin’s "The Arcades Project."
  • D. Michael McCusker
    Michael McCusker is an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
  • E. Brian McHugh
    Brian McHugh is a fictional character appearing in the 1928 silent drama film "Mother Machree."
  • 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_69c6995966348190939e6c37ba272c06 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7024481448190b32ba04e8792f15a completed March 27, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8be22dd6481908bb4c1afaf65bcb4 completed March 29, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8bf9e93bc8190a4764967c06de4af completed March 29, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8c01bf3f08190a0071eff2c412e6e completed March 29, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:02 p.m.