Triple

T9584742
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jack Buchanan E231258 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Walter John Buchanan
Walter John Buchanan was the birth name of Jack Buchanan, a prominent Scottish musical theatre and film actor, singer, producer, and director active in the early to mid-20th century.
E820507 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: Walter John Buchanan | Statement: [Jack Buchanan, birthName, Walter John Buchanan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter John Buchanan
Context triple: [Jack Buchanan, birthName, Walter John Buchanan]
  • A. Charles Alling Gifford
    Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
  • B. John Cumming
    John Cumming is a translator known for his English translation of the critical theory classic "Dialectic of Enlightenment."
  • C. George Douglas
    George Douglas was a pseudonym used by American jazz record producer and songwriter Bob Thiele, under which he co-wrote notable songs including "What a Wonderful World."
  • D. James Muir
    James Muir is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Muir rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
  • E. Archibald Blair
    Archibald Blair was a British naval officer and surveyor associated with the early colonial exploration and development of the Andaman Islands.
  • 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: Walter John Buchanan
Triple: [Jack Buchanan, birthName, Walter John Buchanan]
Generated description
Walter John Buchanan was the birth name of Jack Buchanan, a prominent Scottish musical theatre and film actor, singer, producer, and director active in the early to mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter John Buchanan
Target entity description: Walter John Buchanan was the birth name of Jack Buchanan, a prominent Scottish musical theatre and film actor, singer, producer, and director active in the early to mid-20th century.
  • A. Charles Alling Gifford
    Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
  • B. John Cumming
    John Cumming is a translator known for his English translation of the critical theory classic "Dialectic of Enlightenment."
  • C. George Douglas
    George Douglas was a pseudonym used by American jazz record producer and songwriter Bob Thiele, under which he co-wrote notable songs including "What a Wonderful World."
  • D. James Muir
    James Muir is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Muir rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
  • E. Archibald Blair
    Archibald Blair was a British naval officer and surveyor associated with the early colonial exploration and development of the Andaman Islands.
  • 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_69ca848161688190a68d514a0a9d5129 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd99d080c88190a7d3876589d7b864 completed April 1, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1bcaf94608190992124965a805228 completed April 5, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1bf70697081909daa19110c20969e completed April 5, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1bfd7e5c08190ae679641f5254dc7 completed April 5, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:06 p.m.