Triple

T20384826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Kidnappers E497931 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object James MacKenzie
James MacKenzie is the central protagonist of the novel "The Kidnappers," around whom the story’s main conflict and events revolve.
E1430590 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: James MacKenzie | Statement: [The Kidnappers, mainCharacter, James MacKenzie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James MacKenzie
Context triple: [The Kidnappers, mainCharacter, James MacKenzie]
  • A. James Mackenzie
    James Mackenzie was a 19th-century Scottish-born New Zealand sheep rustler and folk hero whose exploits led to the naming of the Mackenzie District.
  • B. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a Scottish film and television director best known for his gritty British crime drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980).
  • C. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a pioneering Scottish mountaineer known for making the first ascent of the Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Isle of Skye.
  • D. Dugald Mackenzie
    Dugald Mackenzie is a musician best known as a member of the Australian punk band Venom P. Stinger.
  • E. Dugald Buchanan
    Dugald Buchanan was an 18th-century Scottish Gaelic poet and religious writer known for his influential spiritual verse and role in the Gaelic literary revival.
  • 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: James MacKenzie
Triple: [The Kidnappers, mainCharacter, James MacKenzie]
Generated description
James MacKenzie is the central protagonist of the novel "The Kidnappers," around whom the story’s main conflict and events revolve.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James MacKenzie
Target entity description: James MacKenzie is the central protagonist of the novel "The Kidnappers," around whom the story’s main conflict and events revolve.
  • A. James Mackenzie
    James Mackenzie was a 19th-century Scottish-born New Zealand sheep rustler and folk hero whose exploits led to the naming of the Mackenzie District.
  • B. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a Scottish film and television director best known for his gritty British crime drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980).
  • C. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a pioneering Scottish mountaineer known for making the first ascent of the Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Isle of Skye.
  • D. Dugald Mackenzie
    Dugald Mackenzie is a musician best known as a member of the Australian punk band Venom P. Stinger.
  • E. Dugald Buchanan
    Dugald Buchanan was an 18th-century Scottish Gaelic poet and religious writer known for his influential spiritual verse and role in the Gaelic literary revival.
  • 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_69e0b4a71ebc8190b153a36c738730f4 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6790a31a4819099b2e6df2bafe547 completed April 20, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0883e868a88190badb2acef541f6fd completed May 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08849e605881909f3744eabf3c45ca completed May 16, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a088511c07c81908492b7fb54609cbc completed May 16, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:28 a.m.