Triple

T10444562
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian O'Nolan E246251 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman is a darkly comic, surreal novel by Irish writer Flann O'Brien that blends metaphysics, absurdity, and murder mystery in a bizarre rural police station setting.
E864164 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: The Third Policeman | Statement: [Brian O'Nolan, notableWork, The Third Policeman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Third Policeman
Context triple: [Brian O'Nolan, notableWork, The Third Policeman]
  • A. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a comic science fiction detective novel by Douglas Adams that follows the eccentric "holistic detective" Dirk Gently as he solves mysteries through the interconnectedness of all things.
  • B. The Owl Service
    The Owl Service is a 1967 young adult fantasy novel by Alan Garner that blends Welsh mythology with psychological tension in a contemporary rural setting.
  • C. The Night Clerk
    The Night Clerk is a 2020 crime drama thriller film about a socially awkward hotel clerk who becomes entangled in a murder investigation after secretly recording guests.
  • D. The Singing Detective
    The Singing Detective is a critically acclaimed British television serial written by Dennis Potter that blends noir mystery, musical fantasy, and psychological drama through the hallucinations of a hospitalized writer.
  • E. The Order of Things
    The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
  • 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: The Third Policeman
Triple: [Brian O'Nolan, notableWork, The Third Policeman]
Generated description
The Third Policeman is a darkly comic, surreal novel by Irish writer Flann O'Brien that blends metaphysics, absurdity, and murder mystery in a bizarre rural police station setting.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Third Policeman
Target entity description: The Third Policeman is a darkly comic, surreal novel by Irish writer Flann O'Brien that blends metaphysics, absurdity, and murder mystery in a bizarre rural police station setting.
  • A. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a comic science fiction detective novel by Douglas Adams that follows the eccentric "holistic detective" Dirk Gently as he solves mysteries through the interconnectedness of all things.
  • B. The Owl Service
    The Owl Service is a 1967 young adult fantasy novel by Alan Garner that blends Welsh mythology with psychological tension in a contemporary rural setting.
  • C. The Night Clerk
    The Night Clerk is a 2020 crime drama thriller film about a socially awkward hotel clerk who becomes entangled in a murder investigation after secretly recording guests.
  • D. The Singing Detective
    The Singing Detective is a critically acclaimed British television serial written by Dennis Potter that blends noir mystery, musical fantasy, and psychological drama through the hallucinations of a hospitalized writer.
  • E. The Order of Things
    The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
  • 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_69d381c04fe08190957c26c526a3b05a completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4fdbe5dc48190b4291bfd0fb988eb completed April 7, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d87ee0c2208190ae8d51a2a89a2586 completed April 10, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d886c3fdcc8190a67a7f7788b8a2e8 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d88dc15ab481909011c5de93bbab14 completed April 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:16 p.m.