Triple

T10589138
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dragon School E249935 entity
Predicate notableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare is a British novelist, biographer, and former journalist best known for works such as "The Dancer Upstairs" and his acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin.
 E872142 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: Nicholas Shakespeare | Statement: [Dragon School, notableAlumni, Nicholas Shakespeare]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicholas Shakespeare
Context triple: [Dragon School, notableAlumni, Nicholas Shakespeare]
  • A. Henry Hope Shakespear
    Henry Hope Shakespear was a British civil servant in colonial India and the father of modernist artist Dorothy Shakespear.
  • B. Robbie Shakespeare
    Robbie Shakespeare was a renowned Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as one half of the influential reggae and dub duo Sly and Robbie.
  • C. Shakespeare Quiney
    Shakespeare Quiney was one of the grandchildren of the playwright William Shakespeare, born to his daughter Judith and her husband Thomas Quiney in early 17th-century Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • D. Robert Shakespeare
    Robert Shakespeare is a music producer best known for his work on the song "Equal Rights."
  • E. Arden Shakespeare
    Arden Shakespeare is a renowned scholarly edition series of William Shakespeare’s works, noted for its authoritative texts and extensive critical commentary.
  • 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: Nicholas Shakespeare
Triple: [Dragon School, notableAlumni, Nicholas Shakespeare]
Generated description
Nicholas Shakespeare is a British novelist, biographer, and former journalist best known for works such as "The Dancer Upstairs" and his acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicholas Shakespeare
Target entity description: Nicholas Shakespeare is a British novelist, biographer, and former journalist best known for works such as "The Dancer Upstairs" and his acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin.
  • A. Henry Hope Shakespear
    Henry Hope Shakespear was a British civil servant in colonial India and the father of modernist artist Dorothy Shakespear.
  • B. Robbie Shakespeare
    Robbie Shakespeare was a renowned Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer, best known as one half of the influential reggae and dub duo Sly and Robbie.
  • C. Shakespeare Quiney
    Shakespeare Quiney was one of the grandchildren of the playwright William Shakespeare, born to his daughter Judith and her husband Thomas Quiney in early 17th-century Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • D. Robert Shakespeare
    Robert Shakespeare is a music producer best known for his work on the song "Equal Rights."
  • E. Arden Shakespeare
    Arden Shakespeare is a renowned scholarly edition series of William Shakespeare’s works, noted for its authoritative texts and extensive critical commentary.
  • 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_69d381c9d3d48190a29ee491e1696a0e completed April 6, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d5277a39f08190848f24752cfa4b8f completed April 7, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d94b9440548190bff01847a940266b completed April 10, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d94ca13550819085b7824d8b5131e7 completed April 10, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d9518517608190b5036694b83f5f58 completed April 10, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:40 p.m.