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]
  • 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
  • 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.