Triple

T20461390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Raccoon City E501930 entity
Predicate associatedWithCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object William Birkin
William Birkin is a key antagonist in the Resident Evil video game series, a virologist responsible for creating the G-virus that devastates Raccoon City.
E1432892 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 Birkin | Statement: [Raccoon City, associatedWithCharacter, William Birkin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Birkin
Context triple: [Raccoon City, associatedWithCharacter, William Birkin]
  • A. Anselm Birkin
    Anselm Birkin is a member of the Birkin family, known primarily as the son of British screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin.
  • B. Ned Birkin
    Ned Birkin is an actor best known for his role in the 1973 British drama film "The Cement Garden," adapted from Ian McEwan’s novel.
  • C. Christopher Joseph Ward
    Christopher Joseph Ward is an American musician best known as C.J. Ramone, the bassist who joined the pioneering punk rock band the Ramones in their later years.
  • D. Richard Marsten
    Richard Marsten is a pseudonym used by American author Evan Hunter, known for his crime and mystery fiction.
  • E. Thomas Burberry
    Thomas Burberry was a British draper and fashion designer best known for founding the luxury fashion house Burberry and inventing the weatherproof gabardine fabric.
  • 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 Birkin
Triple: [Raccoon City, associatedWithCharacter, William Birkin]
Generated description
William Birkin is a key antagonist in the Resident Evil video game series, a virologist responsible for creating the G-virus that devastates Raccoon City.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Birkin
Target entity description: William Birkin is a key antagonist in the Resident Evil video game series, a virologist responsible for creating the G-virus that devastates Raccoon City.
  • A. Anselm Birkin
    Anselm Birkin is a member of the Birkin family, known primarily as the son of British screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin.
  • B. Ned Birkin
    Ned Birkin is an actor best known for his role in the 1973 British drama film "The Cement Garden," adapted from Ian McEwan’s novel.
  • C. Christopher Joseph Ward
    Christopher Joseph Ward is an American musician best known as C.J. Ramone, the bassist who joined the pioneering punk rock band the Ramones in their later years.
  • D. Richard Marsten
    Richard Marsten is a pseudonym used by American author Evan Hunter, known for his crime and mystery fiction.
  • E. Thomas Burberry
    Thomas Burberry was a British draper and fashion designer best known for founding the luxury fashion house Burberry and inventing the weatherproof gabardine fabric.
  • 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_69e0b4ad4940819098cf2ff6413574e5 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e696a642648190808709020f91122b completed April 20, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a088b14c2648190ba8d1cf293d74544 completed May 16, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088c58f6748190b9945d6bff0f4b8c completed May 16, 2026, 3:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a088cdecf04819097d6e934acc6c70f completed May 16, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:33 a.m.