Triple

T14240316
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Master (Doctor Who) E352985 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object William Hughes
William Hughes was a Welsh child actor best known for playing a young incarnation of the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
E1087604 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: William Hughes | Statement: [The Master (Doctor Who), portrayedBy, William Hughes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hughes
Context triple: [The Master (Doctor Who), portrayedBy, William Hughes]
  • A. William Hughes
    William Hughes is a member of the Hughes family, known primarily in relation to poet Ted Hughes and his descendants.
  • B. William Morris Hughes
    William Morris Hughes was an Australian politician who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Australia and later became a prominent and long-serving federal parliamentarian.
  • C. Arthur Deakin
    Arthur Deakin was a prominent British trade union leader who played a key role in shaping mid-20th-century labor relations in the United Kingdom.
  • D. Joseph Cook
    Joseph Cook was an Australian politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Australia and played a key role in early federal politics.
  • E. John Eager Howard
    John Eager Howard was an American Revolutionary War officer, politician, and Governor of Maryland renowned for his military leadership and public service in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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: William Hughes
Triple: [The Master (Doctor Who), portrayedBy, William Hughes]
Generated description
William Hughes was a Welsh child actor best known for playing a young incarnation of the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hughes
Target entity description: William Hughes was a Welsh child actor best known for playing a young incarnation of the Master in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • A. William Hughes
    William Hughes is a member of the Hughes family, known primarily in relation to poet Ted Hughes and his descendants.
  • B. William Morris Hughes
    William Morris Hughes was an Australian politician who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Australia and later became a prominent and long-serving federal parliamentarian.
  • C. Arthur Deakin
    Arthur Deakin was a prominent British trade union leader who played a key role in shaping mid-20th-century labor relations in the United Kingdom.
  • D. Joseph Cook
    Joseph Cook was an Australian politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Australia and played a key role in early federal politics.
  • E. John Eager Howard
    John Eager Howard was an American Revolutionary War officer, politician, and Governor of Maryland renowned for his military leadership and public service in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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_69d8278adc7c8190a9218d69bce3c4e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de62432fb48190b153805b85c4f2d2 completed April 14, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd282183308190b63172972773b3c2 completed May 8, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd29fd7cdc8190bd210f3b27f935c0 completed May 8, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd2bc719ac8190b2b8726c70d811dd completed May 8, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:08 a.m.