Triple

T20929265
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Timeline (film) E515424 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Professor Edward Johnston
Professor Edward Johnston is a central character in the science fiction film "Timeline," portrayed as a historian and archaeologist whose disappearance in medieval France prompts a time-travel rescue mission by his students.
E1457367 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: Professor Edward Johnston | Statement: [Timeline (film), mainCharacter, Professor Edward Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Edward Johnston
Context triple: [Timeline (film), mainCharacter, Professor Edward Johnston]
  • A. Sidney Lee
    Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on the Dictionary of National Biography and his influential studies of William Shakespeare.
  • B. Geoffrey W. Petrie
    Geoffrey W. Petrie is a New Zealand archaeologist and academic known for his contributions to the study of Pacific prehistory and material culture.
  • C. Fred Jowett
    Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
  • D. Cyril J. Mockridge
    Cyril J. Mockridge was a British-born American film composer and arranger best known for his extensive work scoring Hollywood films for 20th Century Fox during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Clarence Odbody
    Clarence Odbody is the bumbling yet wise guardian angel in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," sent to help George Bailey understand the value of his life.
  • 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: Professor Edward Johnston
Triple: [Timeline (film), mainCharacter, Professor Edward Johnston]
Generated description
Professor Edward Johnston is a central character in the science fiction film "Timeline," portrayed as a historian and archaeologist whose disappearance in medieval France prompts a time-travel rescue mission by his students.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Edward Johnston
Target entity description: Professor Edward Johnston is a central character in the science fiction film "Timeline," portrayed as a historian and archaeologist whose disappearance in medieval France prompts a time-travel rescue mission by his students.
  • A. Sidney Lee
    Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on the Dictionary of National Biography and his influential studies of William Shakespeare.
  • B. Geoffrey W. Petrie
    Geoffrey W. Petrie is a New Zealand archaeologist and academic known for his contributions to the study of Pacific prehistory and material culture.
  • C. Fred Jowett
    Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
  • D. Cyril J. Mockridge
    Cyril J. Mockridge was a British-born American film composer and arranger best known for his extensive work scoring Hollywood films for 20th Century Fox during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Clarence Odbody
    Clarence Odbody is the bumbling yet wise guardian angel in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," sent to help George Bailey understand the value of his life.
  • 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_69e0b4fb431c8190b9d40e6a72f0cc87 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6f6545f8c81908a8c2f0e8d7b060e completed April 21, 2026, 4 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a091fce6b148190b2dcf07d95696744 completed May 17, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09206824148190881bef138312d37f completed May 17, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0920d752888190bffcfa7ce75cd2ad completed May 17, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:49 p.m.