Triple

T9150175
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David McCallum E219564 entity
Predicate role P268 FINISHED
Object Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard is the eccentric, bow-tie-wearing chief medical examiner and beloved mentor figure on the long-running TV crime drama NCIS.
E781300 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: Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard | Statement: [David McCallum, role, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
Context triple: [David McCallum, role, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard]
  • A. Leroy Jethro Gibbs
    Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a stoic, highly skilled former Marine sniper and the lead special agent of the NCIS Major Case Response Team in the long-running television series "NCIS."
  • B. Dr. Sam Beckett
    Dr. Sam Beckett is the time-traveling physicist and protagonist of the science fiction television series "Quantum Leap," who "leaps" into other people's lives to correct historical mistakes.
  • C. Sidney Parker
    Sidney Parker is a central romantic lead in Jane Austen’s unfinished novel "Sanditon," portrayed as a charming yet initially enigmatic gentleman whose evolving relationship with the heroine drives much of the story’s drama.
  • D. Anthony DiNozzo
    Anthony DiNozzo is a charismatic, wisecracking former homicide detective who serves as a senior field agent on the hit TV crime drama NCIS.
  • E. Horatio Caine
    Horatio Caine is the iconic, sunglasses-wearing lieutenant of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab known for his calm demeanor, moral conviction, and memorable one-liners in the TV series CSI: Miami.
  • 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: Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
Triple: [David McCallum, role, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard]
Generated description
Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard is the eccentric, bow-tie-wearing chief medical examiner and beloved mentor figure on the long-running TV crime drama NCIS.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
Target entity description: Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard is the eccentric, bow-tie-wearing chief medical examiner and beloved mentor figure on the long-running TV crime drama NCIS.
  • A. Leroy Jethro Gibbs
    Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a stoic, highly skilled former Marine sniper and the lead special agent of the NCIS Major Case Response Team in the long-running television series "NCIS."
  • B. Dr. Sam Beckett
    Dr. Sam Beckett is the time-traveling physicist and protagonist of the science fiction television series "Quantum Leap," who "leaps" into other people's lives to correct historical mistakes.
  • C. Sidney Parker
    Sidney Parker is a central romantic lead in Jane Austen’s unfinished novel "Sanditon," portrayed as a charming yet initially enigmatic gentleman whose evolving relationship with the heroine drives much of the story’s drama.
  • D. Anthony DiNozzo
    Anthony DiNozzo is a charismatic, wisecracking former homicide detective who serves as a senior field agent on the hit TV crime drama NCIS.
  • E. Horatio Caine
    Horatio Caine is the iconic, sunglasses-wearing lieutenant of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab known for his calm demeanor, moral conviction, and memorable one-liners in the TV series CSI: Miami.
  • 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_69ca83e121dc81909912bd66953081c5 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca96908d88190a1d12517f6d1aece completed April 1, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0483cdd048190904260c44a5810cf completed April 3, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d049f8cd8c819098bf63cfbe7bcc1c completed April 3, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d04a58f6288190931a7e4ab3d8ec02 completed April 3, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:20 p.m.