Triple

T5122557
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Liam Gillick E115502 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object McNamara
McNamara is an art project by conceptual artist Liam Gillick, reflecting his interest in institutional critique and the structures underlying contemporary society.
 E496594 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: McNamara | Statement: [Liam Gillick, notableWork, McNamara]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McNamara
Context triple: [Liam Gillick, notableWork, McNamara]
  • A. Robert McNamara
    Robert McNamara was a prominent American business executive and U.S. Secretary of Defense best known for his central role in shaping U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War and later leadership of the World Bank.
  • B. Michael Maddox
    Michael Maddox was an English theatrical entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Russian theatre in the late 18th century, notably helping establish what became the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • C. Kennedy
    Kennedy is a given name shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, music, and entertainment.
  • D. Kennedy
    Kennedy is a prominent Irish-American political and public-service family best known for producing U.S. President John F. Kennedy and numerous other influential politicians.
  • E. Kennedy
    Kennedy is a vast rural federal electoral division in Queensland, Australia, known for encompassing remote outback communities and mining towns.
  • 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: McNamara
Triple: [Liam Gillick, notableWork, McNamara]
Generated description
McNamara is an art project by conceptual artist Liam Gillick, reflecting his interest in institutional critique and the structures underlying contemporary society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McNamara
Target entity description: McNamara is an art project by conceptual artist Liam Gillick, reflecting his interest in institutional critique and the structures underlying contemporary society.
  • A. Robert McNamara
    Robert McNamara was a prominent American business executive and U.S. Secretary of Defense best known for his central role in shaping U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War and later leadership of the World Bank.
  • B. Michael Maddox
    Michael Maddox was an English theatrical entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Russian theatre in the late 18th century, notably helping establish what became the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • C. Kennedy
    Kennedy is a prominent Irish-American political and public-service family best known for producing U.S. President John F. Kennedy and numerous other influential politicians.
  • D. Kennedy
    Kennedy is a given name shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, music, and entertainment.
  • E. Kennedy
    Kennedy is a vast rural federal electoral division in Queensland, Australia, known for encompassing remote outback communities and mining towns.
  • 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_69bd4442ade0819087b9461f892b206b completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd78045e448190961db0ca7692370e completed March 20, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bec4b401a481909abf6660401c47dc completed March 21, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bec6ff39a08190adb303fa2a6b5193 completed March 21, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bec808062c8190b2c0ee234477af95 completed March 21, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:42 p.m.