Triple

T21074588
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Boulting E519197 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John Boulting was a British film director and producer best known for his satirical and socially conscious films made with his twin brother, Roy Boulting, in the mid-20th century.
E1464536 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: John | Statement: [John Boulting, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Boulting, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John B. Magruder was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and his flamboyant personality.
  • B. John
    John is the first name of American college football coach Jimbo Fisher, known for leading Florida State University to a national championship.
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of Buck Freeman, an American professional baseball player from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. John
    John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, a German nobleman from the House of Mecklenburg.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Boulting, givenName, John]
Generated description
John Boulting was a British film director and producer best known for his satirical and socially conscious films made with his twin brother, Roy Boulting, in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John Boulting was a British film director and producer best known for his satirical and socially conscious films made with his twin brother, Roy Boulting, in the mid-20th century.
  • A. John
    John Brabourne was a British film and television producer and peer, known for producing works such as the 1979 adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express."
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Attenborough, a British executive and the younger brother of naturalist David Attenborough and filmmaker Richard Attenborough.
  • C. John
    John is the birth name of Jack Pickford, a Canadian-born American actor and film director of the silent era and younger brother of Mary Pickford.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of the English playwright, screenwriter, and actor John Osborne, a leading figure of the "Angry Young Men" movement in mid-20th-century British theatre.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Reith, the influential first Director-General of the BBC who shaped early public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
  • 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_69e0b506e59c8190849b71ed07929215 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e702d5ae908190ab5303e39443d729 completed April 21, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09505fd1d0819098d8b390884e36db completed May 17, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09517954888190a2e20555afd95959 completed May 17, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a095204ba6c8190aff8dbb3b4b537d4 completed May 17, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:48 p.m.