Triple

T20385074
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Greyfriars Bobby (1961 film) E497937 entity
Predicate stars P1956 FINISHED
Object Alex Mackenzie
Alex Mackenzie was a Scottish character actor known for his roles in mid-20th-century British films and television, often portraying rugged or working-class figures.
 E1433455 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: Alex Mackenzie | Statement: [Greyfriars Bobby (1961 film), stars, Alex Mackenzie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alex Mackenzie
Context triple: [Greyfriars Bobby (1961 film), stars, Alex Mackenzie]
  • A. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a Scottish film and television director best known for his gritty British crime drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980).
  • B. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a pioneering Scottish mountaineer known for making the first ascent of the Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Isle of Skye.
  • C. James MacKenzie
    James MacKenzie is the central protagonist of the novel "The Kidnappers," around whom the story’s main conflict and events revolve.
  • D. Dugald Mackenzie
    Dugald Mackenzie is a musician best known as a member of the Australian punk band Venom P. Stinger.
  • E. Duncan Mackenzie
    Duncan Mackenzie was a British archaeologist known for his excavation work in the early 20th century, including significant contributions to the study of Near Eastern sites.
  • 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: Alex Mackenzie
Triple: [Greyfriars Bobby (1961 film), stars, Alex Mackenzie]
Generated description
Alex Mackenzie was a Scottish character actor known for his roles in mid-20th-century British films and television, often portraying rugged or working-class figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alex Mackenzie
Target entity description: Alex Mackenzie was a Scottish character actor known for his roles in mid-20th-century British films and television, often portraying rugged or working-class figures.
  • A. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a Scottish film and television director best known for his gritty British crime drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980).
  • B. John Mackenzie
    John Mackenzie was a pioneering Scottish mountaineer known for making the first ascent of the Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Isle of Skye.
  • C. James MacKenzie
    James MacKenzie is the central protagonist of the novel "The Kidnappers," around whom the story’s main conflict and events revolve.
  • D. Dugald Mackenzie
    Dugald Mackenzie is a musician best known as a member of the Australian punk band Venom P. Stinger.
  • E. Duncan Mackenzie
    Duncan Mackenzie was a British archaeologist known for his excavation work in the early 20th century, including significant contributions to the study of Near Eastern sites.
  • 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_6a088b0181a4819091030ed92f04d2dc completed May 16, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088f2c8ccc8190a1dc02db8e799355 completed May 16, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a088f81fd0c8190a006db7e4fa9b440 completed May 16, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:28 a.m.