Triple
T10283855
| 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."]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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.