Triple

T13448529
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Liar E320546 entity
Predicate basedOnWorkAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Keith Waterhouse
Keith Waterhouse was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist best known for his comic novel "Billy Liar" and his long-running contributions to British newspapers and television.
 E1040246 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: Keith Waterhouse | Statement: [Billy Liar, basedOnWorkAuthor, Keith Waterhouse]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Keith Waterhouse
Context triple: [Billy Liar, basedOnWorkAuthor, Keith Waterhouse]
  • A. John Burningham
    John Burningham was a renowned British author and illustrator of children's books, celebrated for his distinctive, whimsical artwork and storytelling.
  • B. Andrew Hulme
    Andrew Hulme is a British film editor known for his work on feature films such as the crime thriller "Lucky Number Slevin."
  • C. Harold Lamb
    Harold Lamb was an American historian, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his popular biographies and adventure stories set in Asian and Middle Eastern historical contexts.
  • D. Richard Llewellyn
    Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
  • E. Walter Connolly
    Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
  • 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: Keith Waterhouse
Triple: [Billy Liar, basedOnWorkAuthor, Keith Waterhouse]
Generated description
Keith Waterhouse was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist best known for his comic novel "Billy Liar" and his long-running contributions to British newspapers and television.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Keith Waterhouse
Target entity description: Keith Waterhouse was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist best known for his comic novel "Billy Liar" and his long-running contributions to British newspapers and television.
  • A. John Burningham
    John Burningham was a renowned British author and illustrator of children's books, celebrated for his distinctive, whimsical artwork and storytelling.
  • B. Andrew Hulme
    Andrew Hulme is a British film editor known for his work on feature films such as the crime thriller "Lucky Number Slevin."
  • C. Harold Lamb
    Harold Lamb was an American historian, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his popular biographies and adventure stories set in Asian and Middle Eastern historical contexts.
  • D. Richard Llewellyn
    Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
  • E. Walter Connolly
    Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
  • 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaef758b08190b9aa5ec7082cd417 completed April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f73999f8388190b2c578e063341178 completed May 3, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f73af2b37481908c4d282c1335fe08 completed May 3, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f73b959de88190959335353242031b completed May 3, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:41 p.m.