Triple

T21711411
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Halliday E535915 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday was a British linguist best known for developing systemic functional linguistics, a theory that emphasizes the social functions of language.
E1498618 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: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday | Statement: [Michael Halliday, fullName, Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Context triple: [Michael Halliday, fullName, Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday]
  • A. Kenneth Halliwell
    Kenneth Halliwell was a British actor, writer, and artist best known as the troubled partner of playwright Joe Orton, whose tumultuous relationship and Halliwell’s eventual murder of Orton became the subject of the biography and film "Prick Up Your Ears."
  • B. Jonathan Lyndale Kirk
    Jonathan Lyndale Kirk is an American rapper and songwriter better known by his stage name DaBaby, recognized for his energetic delivery and chart-topping hits in the late 2010s.
  • C. Andrew Healey
    Andrew Healey is a person notable enough to be specifically referenced as a bearer of the surname Healey.
  • D. Peter Hill-Wood
    Peter Hill-Wood was a long-serving English businessman best known as the chairman of Arsenal Football Club, overseeing the club through significant modernisation and success.
  • E. Stephen Richard Hackett
    Stephen Richard Hackett is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis during the 1970s and for his subsequent solo career.
  • 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: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Triple: [Michael Halliday, fullName, Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday]
Generated description
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday was a British linguist best known for developing systemic functional linguistics, a theory that emphasizes the social functions of language.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Target entity description: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday was a British linguist best known for developing systemic functional linguistics, a theory that emphasizes the social functions of language.
  • A. Kenneth Halliwell
    Kenneth Halliwell was a British actor, writer, and artist best known as the troubled partner of playwright Joe Orton, whose tumultuous relationship and Halliwell’s eventual murder of Orton became the subject of the biography and film "Prick Up Your Ears."
  • B. Jonathan Lyndale Kirk
    Jonathan Lyndale Kirk is an American rapper and songwriter better known by his stage name DaBaby, recognized for his energetic delivery and chart-topping hits in the late 2010s.
  • C. Andrew Healey
    Andrew Healey is a person notable enough to be specifically referenced as a bearer of the surname Healey.
  • D. Peter Hill-Wood
    Peter Hill-Wood was a long-serving English businessman best known as the chairman of Arsenal Football Club, overseeing the club through significant modernisation and success.
  • E. Stephen Richard Hackett
    Stephen Richard Hackett is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis during the 1970s and for his subsequent solo career.
  • 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_69e0c46b44c0819088ab883ebd44e0e8 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69efb53450108190ba1c9e3cc3a0ab89 completed April 27, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a24afb170819082e8b5d06427140a completed May 17, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a276da268819082c3e2551f05e020 completed May 17, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a27d9bb248190b65da5cb50c332ec completed May 17, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:46 p.m.