Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Dent E241175 entity
Predicate describedBySource P519 FINISHED
Object user-provided description: "Alan Dent was a British screenwriter and critic known for his work on mid-20th-century film adaptations of classic literature."
Alan Dent was a mid-20th-century British screenwriter and film critic particularly associated with adapting classic literary works for the screen.
E852598 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: user-provided description: "Alan Dent was a British screenwriter and critic known for his work on mid-20th-century film adaptations of classic literature." | Statement: [Alan Dent, describedBySource, user-provided description: "Alan Dent was a British screenwriter and critic known for his work on mid-20th-century film adaptations of classic literature."]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: user-provided description: "Alan Dent was a British screenwriter and critic known for his work on mid-20th-century film adaptations of classic literature."
Context triple: [Alan Dent, describedBySource, user-provided description: "Alan Dent was a British screenwriter and critic known for his work on mid-20th-century film adaptations of classic literature."]
  • A. Antony Booth
    Antony Booth was a British actor best known for his role in the sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part" and as the father-in-law of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
  • B. Dennis Potter
    Dennis Potter was a groundbreaking British television dramatist and screenwriter renowned for his innovative, psychologically rich works that often blended fantasy and reality.
  • C. John Sutherland
    John Sutherland is a prominent British literary critic and scholar known for his extensive work on Victorian literature and popular literary history.
  • D. Geoffrey Homes
    Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of American writer Daniel Mainwaring, best known for his hardboiled crime novels and screenplays, including the source novel for the classic film noir "Out of the Past."
  • E. Michael Bentine
    Michael Bentine was a British comedian, actor, and founding member of The Goon Show, known for his inventive and often surreal humor in radio, television, and film.
  • 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: user-provided description: "Alan Dent was a British screenwriter and critic known for his work on mid-20th-century film adaptations of classic literature."
Triple: [Alan Dent, describedBySource, user-provided description: "Alan Dent was a British screenwriter and critic known for his work on mid-20th-century film adaptations of classic literature."]
Generated description
Alan Dent was a mid-20th-century British screenwriter and film critic particularly associated with adapting classic literary works for the screen.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: user-provided description: "Alan Dent was a British screenwriter and critic known for his work on mid-20th-century film adaptations of classic literature."
Target entity description: Alan Dent was a mid-20th-century British screenwriter and film critic particularly associated with adapting classic literary works for the screen.
  • A. Antony Booth
    Antony Booth was a British actor best known for his role in the sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part" and as the father-in-law of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
  • B. Dennis Potter
    Dennis Potter was a groundbreaking British television dramatist and screenwriter renowned for his innovative, psychologically rich works that often blended fantasy and reality.
  • C. John Sutherland
    John Sutherland is a prominent British literary critic and scholar known for his extensive work on Victorian literature and popular literary history.
  • D. Geoffrey Homes
    Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of American writer Daniel Mainwaring, best known for his hardboiled crime novels and screenplays, including the source novel for the classic film noir "Out of the Past."
  • E. Michael Bentine
    Michael Bentine was a British comedian, actor, and founding member of The Goon Show, known for his inventive and often surreal humor in radio, television, and film.
  • 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_69d381aaafc08190af475ef58dc16aba completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d2b5853081909cd0397e08a0f44d completed April 7, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f83c3c488190b728783bc260b006 completed April 9, 2026, 12:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fcae243c819095a2e791716805bd completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fd3495fc8190a093d2536cfbe58a completed April 9, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:39 a.m.