Triple

T9316387
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Anne V. Coates E224130 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Douglas Hickox
Douglas Hickox was a British film and television director known for works such as "Theatre of Blood" and "Zulu Dawn."
E791724 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: Douglas Hickox | Statement: [Anne V. Coates, spouse, Douglas Hickox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Hickox
Context triple: [Anne V. Coates, spouse, Douglas Hickox]
  • A. Frank Yallop
    Frank Yallop is a former Canadian international defender and successful soccer coach best known for leading the San Jose Earthquakes to multiple MLS Cup titles.
  • B. Sir Brian Hutton
    Sir Brian Hutton was a prominent British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and later led the high-profile Hutton Inquiry into the death of weapons expert Dr. David Kelly.
  • C. Brian Clough
    Brian Clough was a charismatic and outspoken English football manager renowned for leading unfashionable clubs like Derby County and Nottingham Forest to unprecedented domestic and European success.
  • D. Denis Law
    Denis Law is a Scottish former professional footballer best known as a prolific forward for Manchester United and the Scotland national team during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • E. Graham Taylor
    Graham Taylor was an influential American social reformer and educator who helped pioneer the settlement house movement in the United States.
  • 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: Douglas Hickox
Triple: [Anne V. Coates, spouse, Douglas Hickox]
Generated description
Douglas Hickox was a British film and television director known for works such as "Theatre of Blood" and "Zulu Dawn."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas Hickox
Target entity description: Douglas Hickox was a British film and television director known for works such as "Theatre of Blood" and "Zulu Dawn."
  • A. Frank Yallop
    Frank Yallop is a former Canadian international defender and successful soccer coach best known for leading the San Jose Earthquakes to multiple MLS Cup titles.
  • B. Sir Brian Hutton
    Sir Brian Hutton was a prominent British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and later led the high-profile Hutton Inquiry into the death of weapons expert Dr. David Kelly.
  • C. Brian Clough
    Brian Clough was a charismatic and outspoken English football manager renowned for leading unfashionable clubs like Derby County and Nottingham Forest to unprecedented domestic and European success.
  • D. Denis Law
    Denis Law is a Scottish former professional footballer best known as a prolific forward for Manchester United and the Scotland national team during the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • E. Graham Taylor
    Graham Taylor was an influential American social reformer and educator who helped pioneer the settlement house movement in the United States.
  • 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_69ca8425f4fc81909c1c586e9a5b7530 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd358846e48190a8aacfab19d88ae7 completed April 1, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0c7b73ff881909e936374fd90a822 completed April 4, 2026, 8:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0ca049fdc819091e101d8cdcfb7e8 completed April 4, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0cc6239108190b921eface5cdd543 completed April 4, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:37 p.m.