Triple
T14963974
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nicholas Courtney |
E373138
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Nicholas Stone Courtney
William Nicholas Stone Courtney was a British actor best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the television series Doctor Who.
|
E1130581
|
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 Nicholas Stone Courtney | Statement: [Nicholas Courtney, birthName, William Nicholas Stone Courtney]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nicholas Stone Courtney Context triple: [Nicholas Courtney, birthName, William Nicholas Stone Courtney]
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A.
Horace Gasquet
Horace Gasquet was a local figure in California, likely an early settler or landowner, after whom the community of Gasquet, California, was named.
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B.
William Renshaw
William Renshaw was a dominant 19th-century British tennis player best known for winning multiple Wimbledon singles titles and helping to popularize the sport.
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C.
Christopher Tietjens
Christopher Tietjens is the brilliant, emotionally reserved English civil servant and statistician at the center of Ford Madox Ford’s World War I tetralogy, whose rigid moral code clashes with a changing modern world.
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D.
Sir Andrew Judde
Sir Andrew Judde was a 16th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London known for his philanthropy and support of education.
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E.
Cyril Judd
Cyril Judd is a joint pseudonym used by science fiction authors Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril for their collaborative works.
- 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 Nicholas Stone Courtney Triple: [Nicholas Courtney, birthName, William Nicholas Stone Courtney]
Generated description
William Nicholas Stone Courtney was a British actor best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the television series Doctor Who.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Nicholas Stone Courtney Target entity description: William Nicholas Stone Courtney was a British actor best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the television series Doctor Who.
-
A.
Horace Gasquet
Horace Gasquet was a local figure in California, likely an early settler or landowner, after whom the community of Gasquet, California, was named.
-
B.
William Renshaw
William Renshaw was a dominant 19th-century British tennis player best known for winning multiple Wimbledon singles titles and helping to popularize the sport.
-
C.
Christopher Tietjens
Christopher Tietjens is the brilliant, emotionally reserved English civil servant and statistician at the center of Ford Madox Ford’s World War I tetralogy, whose rigid moral code clashes with a changing modern world.
-
D.
Sir Andrew Judde
Sir Andrew Judde was a 16th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London known for his philanthropy and support of education.
-
E.
Cyril Judd
Cyril Judd is a joint pseudonym used by science fiction authors Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril for their collaborative works.
- 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_69d85cca979481908747d2a81eba1cea |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ded6d0487c8190b7754af8c5014b37 |
completed | April 15, 2026, 12:07 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe8bdeec408190893d1db9254da24e |
completed | May 9, 2026, 1:20 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fe90383bd081908bc754655c203695 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 1:39 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fe90ec50e081909ab267fee2b069bc |
completed | May 9, 2026, 1:42 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:40 a.m.