Triple

T20471973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Quirke E502214 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Conor McPherson
Conor McPherson is an acclaimed Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his atmospheric, character-driven dramas and ghost stories such as "The Weir" and "Shining City."
E1433508 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: Conor McPherson | Statement: [Quirke, screenwriter, Conor McPherson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Conor McPherson
Context triple: [Quirke, screenwriter, Conor McPherson]
  • A. David Greig
    David Greig is a Scottish playwright and theatre director known for his wide-ranging stage works and adaptations, including the book for the musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
  • B. David Harrower
    David Harrower is a Scottish playwright and screenwriter known for his acclaimed stage works such as "Blackbird" and his contributions to film and television.
  • C. Dennis Kelly
    Dennis Kelly is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and often unsettling work in theatre and television, including the acclaimed series "Utopia" and the stage musical "Matilda."
  • D. Joe Penhall
    Joe Penhall is a British playwright and screenwriter known for works such as the play "Blue/Orange" and for writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road."
  • E. Desmond Boal
    Desmond Boal was a Northern Irish barrister and politician who co-founded the Democratic Unionist Party alongside Ian Paisley and played a key role in shaping its early unionist and hardline policies.
  • 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: Conor McPherson
Triple: [Quirke, screenwriter, Conor McPherson]
Generated description
Conor McPherson is an acclaimed Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his atmospheric, character-driven dramas and ghost stories such as "The Weir" and "Shining City."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Conor McPherson
Target entity description: Conor McPherson is an acclaimed Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director known for his atmospheric, character-driven dramas and ghost stories such as "The Weir" and "Shining City."
  • A. David Greig
    David Greig is a Scottish playwright and theatre director known for his wide-ranging stage works and adaptations, including the book for the musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
  • B. David Harrower
    David Harrower is a Scottish playwright and screenwriter known for his acclaimed stage works such as "Blackbird" and his contributions to film and television.
  • C. Dennis Kelly
    Dennis Kelly is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his darkly comic and often unsettling work in theatre and television, including the acclaimed series "Utopia" and the stage musical "Matilda."
  • D. Joe Penhall
    Joe Penhall is a British playwright and screenwriter known for works such as the play "Blue/Orange" and for writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road."
  • E. Desmond Boal
    Desmond Boal was a Northern Irish barrister and politician who co-founded the Democratic Unionist Party alongside Ian Paisley and played a key role in shaping its early unionist and hardline policies.
  • 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_69e0b4ae5f1081908768b0c9a3a0bf38 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6996197908190b6570e2a7fd6cf67 completed April 20, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a088b1ed1048190aa21411411972f23 completed May 16, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088d7015188190a3a8a7180c2d6723 completed May 16, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a089153d5a88190ab57db1d7cb787b6 completed May 16, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:33 a.m.