Triple

T11171798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Smoke E264289 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Little Al
Little Al is a minor character from the British television series "The Smoke," which follows the lives of London firefighters.
 E908944 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: Little Al | Statement: [The Smoke, character, Little Al]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Little Al
Context triple: [The Smoke, character, Little Al]
  • A. Little Pete
    Little Pete is a character who serves as a victim in the narrative conflict involving Dino Brewster, highlighting Brewster’s violent and antagonistic nature.
  • B. Little D
    Little D is a colloquial nickname for the city of Denton, Texas, often used in contrast to nearby Dallas, known as "Big D."
  • C. Alvin
    Alvin is the curious and pioneering protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Against the Fall of Night," set in a far-future, dying Earth.
  • D. Alvin
    Alvin is a deep-sea research submersible renowned for its crewed explorations of the ocean floor, including investigations of hydrothermal vents and the Titanic wreck.
  • E. Alvin
    Alvin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "noble friend" or "elf friend," used in various English-speaking countries.
  • 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: Little Al
Triple: [The Smoke, character, Little Al]
Generated description
Little Al is a minor character from the British television series "The Smoke," which follows the lives of London firefighters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Little Al
Target entity description: Little Al is a minor character from the British television series "The Smoke," which follows the lives of London firefighters.
  • A. Little Pete
    Little Pete is a character who serves as a victim in the narrative conflict involving Dino Brewster, highlighting Brewster’s violent and antagonistic nature.
  • B. Little D
    Little D is a colloquial nickname for the city of Denton, Texas, often used in contrast to nearby Dallas, known as "Big D."
  • C. Alvin
    Alvin is a deep-sea research submersible renowned for its crewed explorations of the ocean floor, including investigations of hydrothermal vents and the Titanic wreck.
  • D. Alvin
    Alvin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "noble friend" or "elf friend," used in various English-speaking countries.
  • E. Alvin
    Alvin is the curious and pioneering protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Against the Fall of Night," set in a far-future, dying Earth.
  • 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_69d6aa9dafac8190bd90d2c74f661aa7 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e89660208190b1d9e91529f5d246 completed April 9, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e463b155a08190b361b38a39d25b1f completed April 19, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e46c37efec81908aa709587c37569d completed April 19, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e47292cdd08190b05c4c8b09f4f918 completed April 19, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:29 p.m.