Triple

T19895990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billion Dollar Brain E478153 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object John McGrath
John McGrath was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically engaged theatre work and contributions to film and television, including writing the screenplay for "Billion Dollar Brain."
 E272422 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: John McGrath | Statement: [Billion Dollar Brain, screenwriter, John McGrath]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John McGrath
Context triple: [Billion Dollar Brain, screenwriter, John McGrath]
  • A. John McGrath
    John McGrath is a British theatre director and arts leader known for his innovative, socially engaged work in UK theatre and festivals.
  • B. John McGrath
    John McGrath is a musician known for being a member of the Celtic rock band O'Malley's March.
  • C. John McGrath
    John McGrath is an Australian real estate entrepreneur best known for founding McGrath Estate Agents and playing a key role in shaping the country’s online property industry.
  • D. Jeff McGrath
    Jeff McGrath is an American film and television director best known for his work on animated projects, including directing *The Wild Thornberrys Movie*.
  • E. Lou McGrath
    Lou McGrath is a humanitarian leader best known as a co-founder of the Mines Advisory Group, an organization dedicated to clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance worldwide.
  • 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: John McGrath
Triple: [Billion Dollar Brain, screenwriter, John McGrath]
Generated description
John McGrath was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically engaged theatre work and contributions to film and television, including writing the screenplay for "Billion Dollar Brain."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John McGrath
Target entity description: John McGrath was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his politically engaged theatre work and contributions to film and television, including writing the screenplay for "Billion Dollar Brain."
  • A. John McGrath chosen
    John McGrath is a British theatre director and arts leader known for his innovative, socially engaged work in UK theatre and festivals.
  • B. John McGrath
    John McGrath is a musician known for being a member of the Celtic rock band O'Malley's March.
  • C. John McGrath
    John McGrath is an Australian real estate entrepreneur best known for founding McGrath Estate Agents and playing a key role in shaping the country’s online property industry.
  • D. Jeff McGrath
    Jeff McGrath is an American film and television director best known for his work on animated projects, including directing *The Wild Thornberrys Movie*.
  • E. Lou McGrath
    Lou McGrath is a humanitarian leader best known as a co-founder of the Mines Advisory Group, an organization dedicated to clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance worldwide.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8e520682081909892916424699bd5 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6593cb45881909cc34a9c601db001 completed April 20, 2026, 4:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08c5707cb081908232dc398f7574cc completed May 16, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08c5e61e608190b0d6a7ec415658dd completed May 16, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08c64d463c81909cfd2aabec65397d completed May 16, 2026, 7:32 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:52 p.m.