Triple

T21633958
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Four Feathers (1939 film) E533905 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Donald Gray
Donald Gray was a South African-born British actor best known for his leading roles in 1930s and 1940s films and later work in radio and television.
E1493942 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: Donald Gray | Statement: [The Four Feathers (1939 film), starring, Donald Gray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Gray
Context triple: [The Four Feathers (1939 film), starring, Donald Gray]
  • A. Lawrence Gray
    Lawrence Gray was an American film actor active during the silent and early sound eras, known for his leading-man roles in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood comedies and musicals.
  • B. R. A. Gray
    R. A. Gray was a long-serving Florida Secretary of State and historian known for his contributions to the preservation and documentation of Florida’s history.
  • C. Daniel S. Gray
    Daniel S. Gray was a 19th-century businessman and early settler best known for establishing the community that became Montgomery, Illinois.
  • D. Herb Gray
    Herb Gray was a long-serving Canadian Liberal politician who became Canada’s first Jewish federal cabinet minister and one of the country’s most influential parliamentarians.
  • E. Robert Hampton Gray
    Robert Hampton Gray was a Canadian naval aviator in the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in combat.
  • 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: Donald Gray
Triple: [The Four Feathers (1939 film), starring, Donald Gray]
Generated description
Donald Gray was a South African-born British actor best known for his leading roles in 1930s and 1940s films and later work in radio and television.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Gray
Target entity description: Donald Gray was a South African-born British actor best known for his leading roles in 1930s and 1940s films and later work in radio and television.
  • A. Lawrence Gray
    Lawrence Gray was an American film actor active during the silent and early sound eras, known for his leading-man roles in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood comedies and musicals.
  • B. R. A. Gray
    R. A. Gray was a long-serving Florida Secretary of State and historian known for his contributions to the preservation and documentation of Florida’s history.
  • C. Daniel S. Gray
    Daniel S. Gray was a 19th-century businessman and early settler best known for establishing the community that became Montgomery, Illinois.
  • D. Herb Gray
    Herb Gray was a long-serving Canadian Liberal politician who became Canada’s first Jewish federal cabinet minister and one of the country’s most influential parliamentarians.
  • E. Robert Hampton Gray
    Robert Hampton Gray was a Canadian naval aviator in the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in combat.
  • 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_69e0c465ae7481908577b7209fdb2a77 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef52192e388190a3f316e33f452561 completed April 27, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a0f9bc2f481908ed5ba8292adf47f completed May 17, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a105ec6a08190a7b6d89068e4e369 completed May 17, 2026, 7 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a113606f8819093b398915a291fa1 completed May 17, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:35 p.m.