Triple

T10397021
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Circus E245046 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Oliver Lacon
Oliver Lacon is a senior British intelligence bureaucrat in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, serving as a high-ranking civil servant overseeing the Secret Service.
E860494 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: Oliver Lacon | Statement: [Circus, hasMember, Oliver Lacon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Lacon
Context triple: [Circus, hasMember, Oliver Lacon]
  • A. Oliver Wallace
    Oliver Wallace was a British-born American composer and conductor best known for scoring numerous classic Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Oliver Lambert
    Oliver Lambert is the protagonist of the legal thriller "The Firm," around whom the story’s central conflicts and developments revolve.
  • C. Oliver Stapleton
    Oliver Stapleton is a British cinematographer known for his versatile work across acclaimed films in both independent and mainstream cinema.
  • D. Oliver Braddick
    Oliver Braddick is a British experimental psychologist and neuroscientist known for his influential work on visual perception and development.
  • E. Oliver Johnson
    Oliver Johnson was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, editor, and reformer active in the anti-slavery movement.
  • 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: Oliver Lacon
Triple: [Circus, hasMember, Oliver Lacon]
Generated description
Oliver Lacon is a senior British intelligence bureaucrat in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, serving as a high-ranking civil servant overseeing the Secret Service.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Lacon
Target entity description: Oliver Lacon is a senior British intelligence bureaucrat in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, serving as a high-ranking civil servant overseeing the Secret Service.
  • A. Oliver Wallace
    Oliver Wallace was a British-born American composer and conductor best known for scoring numerous classic Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Oliver Lambert
    Oliver Lambert is the protagonist of the legal thriller "The Firm," around whom the story’s central conflicts and developments revolve.
  • C. Oliver Stapleton
    Oliver Stapleton is a British cinematographer known for his versatile work across acclaimed films in both independent and mainstream cinema.
  • D. Oliver Braddick
    Oliver Braddick is a British experimental psychologist and neuroscientist known for his influential work on visual perception and development.
  • E. Oliver Johnson
    Oliver Johnson was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, editor, and reformer active in the anti-slavery movement.
  • 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_69d381b5116081908d85227bab6d3c0c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9d0de448190b0bfd4d6c87d47fa completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d795cf331c8190b35caf3997dc29a3 completed April 9, 2026, 12:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d7bde050ac8190b87a0c81700ad1b1 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d7e60afaf481909a0790c94e323143 completed April 9, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:06 p.m.