Triple

T12685665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marcus Brewer E303059 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Marcus Brewer (About a Boy novel character)
Marcus Brewer is the socially awkward, introspective young boy at the heart of Nick Hornby’s novel "About a Boy," whose unlikely friendship with the immature bachelor Will Freeman drives the story’s emotional growth and humor.
E998910 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: Marcus Brewer (About a Boy novel character) | Statement: [Marcus Brewer, basedOn, Marcus Brewer (About a Boy novel character)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcus Brewer (About a Boy novel character)
Context triple: [Marcus Brewer, basedOn, Marcus Brewer (About a Boy novel character)]
  • A. Matthew Malone – agoraphobic flatmate
    Matthew Malone is a reclusive, anxiety-ridden flatmate character from the British sitcom "Game On," whose severe agoraphobia keeps him confined to the shared apartment.
  • B. Nicholas Renton
    Nicholas Renton is a British television director known for his work on acclaimed period dramas and literary adaptations.
  • C. Trevor Booker
    Trevor Booker is an American former professional basketball player and power forward who played in the NBA for teams including the Washington Wizards, Utah Jazz, Brooklyn Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, and Indiana Pacers.
  • D. Charlie Brooks
    Charlie Brooks is a British racehorse trainer and newspaper columnist known partly for his high-profile marriage to former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks.
  • E. Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary
    Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary is the reserved, principled barrister who serves as Bridget’s complicated love interest and a modern reimagining of Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy.
  • 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: Marcus Brewer (About a Boy novel character)
Triple: [Marcus Brewer, basedOn, Marcus Brewer (About a Boy novel character)]
Generated description
Marcus Brewer is the socially awkward, introspective young boy at the heart of Nick Hornby’s novel "About a Boy," whose unlikely friendship with the immature bachelor Will Freeman drives the story’s emotional growth and humor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcus Brewer (About a Boy novel character)
Target entity description: Marcus Brewer is the socially awkward, introspective young boy at the heart of Nick Hornby’s novel "About a Boy," whose unlikely friendship with the immature bachelor Will Freeman drives the story’s emotional growth and humor.
  • A. Matthew Malone – agoraphobic flatmate
    Matthew Malone is a reclusive, anxiety-ridden flatmate character from the British sitcom "Game On," whose severe agoraphobia keeps him confined to the shared apartment.
  • B. Nicholas Renton
    Nicholas Renton is a British television director known for his work on acclaimed period dramas and literary adaptations.
  • C. Trevor Booker
    Trevor Booker is an American former professional basketball player and power forward who played in the NBA for teams including the Washington Wizards, Utah Jazz, Brooklyn Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, and Indiana Pacers.
  • D. Charlie Brooks
    Charlie Brooks is a British racehorse trainer and newspaper columnist known partly for his high-profile marriage to former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks.
  • E. Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary
    Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary is the reserved, principled barrister who serves as Bridget’s complicated love interest and a modern reimagining of Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy.
  • 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_69d7bdee64a08190801c6d470aefd723 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d961d7cd4c81909521839ef5859799 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f671a8f068819086e2191439607f76 completed May 2, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6749c2ddc8190945270e6e5b210dd completed May 2, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f675c42fec8190b60751c0db88f3b6 completed May 2, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:21 p.m.