Triple

T16481720
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Snowmen E400333 entity
Predicate portraysCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Dan Starkey as Strax
Dan Starkey as Strax refers to the actor’s popular recurring role as the comedic yet fierce Sontaran butler and warrior in the Doctor Who television series.
E1217408 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: Dan Starkey as Strax | Statement: [The Snowmen, portraysCharacter, Dan Starkey as Strax]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Starkey as Strax
Context triple: [The Snowmen, portraysCharacter, Dan Starkey as Strax]
  • A. David Cross as Minion
    David Cross as Minion refers to the comedic actor’s portrayal of Megamind’s loyal, fish-like sidekick in the animated film "Megamind."
  • B. Seth Green as Dan Mott
    Seth Green as Dan Mott refers to the comedic performance by actor Seth Green as the neurotic, risk-averse member of the trio in the adventure comedy film "Without a Paddle."
  • C. Darkstar (Gerold Dayne)
    Darkstar (Gerold Dayne) is a dangerous and infamous Dornish knight from House Dayne in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, known for his ruthlessness and rebellious ambitions.
  • D. Simon Pegg as Gary King
    Simon Pegg as Gary King is the portrayal of a washed-up, nostalgia-obsessed man-child leading his reluctant friends on a disastrous pub crawl in the sci-fi comedy film "The World's End."
  • E. Nick Briggs (voice)
    Nick Briggs is a British actor and voice artist best known for providing the iconic voices of the Daleks, Cybermen, and other monsters in the Doctor Who franchise.
  • 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: Dan Starkey as Strax
Triple: [The Snowmen, portraysCharacter, Dan Starkey as Strax]
Generated description
Dan Starkey as Strax refers to the actor’s popular recurring role as the comedic yet fierce Sontaran butler and warrior in the Doctor Who television series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Starkey as Strax
Target entity description: Dan Starkey as Strax refers to the actor’s popular recurring role as the comedic yet fierce Sontaran butler and warrior in the Doctor Who television series.
  • A. David Cross as Minion
    David Cross as Minion refers to the comedic actor’s portrayal of Megamind’s loyal, fish-like sidekick in the animated film "Megamind."
  • B. Seth Green as Dan Mott
    Seth Green as Dan Mott refers to the comedic performance by actor Seth Green as the neurotic, risk-averse member of the trio in the adventure comedy film "Without a Paddle."
  • C. Darkstar (Gerold Dayne)
    Darkstar (Gerold Dayne) is a dangerous and infamous Dornish knight from House Dayne in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, known for his ruthlessness and rebellious ambitions.
  • D. Simon Pegg as Gary King
    Simon Pegg as Gary King is the portrayal of a washed-up, nostalgia-obsessed man-child leading his reluctant friends on a disastrous pub crawl in the sci-fi comedy film "The World's End."
  • E. Nick Briggs (voice)
    Nick Briggs is a British actor and voice artist best known for providing the iconic voices of the Daleks, Cybermen, and other monsters in the Doctor Who franchise.
  • 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_69d883813098819084f5409539723b59 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32e02b2c881909576a23bfbd3123c completed April 18, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00581ebe888190a331974473f1be1a completed May 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0059473c088190a8c9fc757c0a3ef1 completed May 10, 2026, 10:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a005a457868819096e21df6944de0ff completed May 10, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.