Triple

T13519327
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Notes on a Scandal E322851 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Barbara Covett
Barbara Covett is a lonely, manipulative schoolteacher whose obsessive fixation on a colleague drives the psychological drama of "Notes on a Scandal."
E1045438 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: Barbara Covett | Statement: [Notes on a Scandal, mainCharacter, Barbara Covett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbara Covett
Context triple: [Notes on a Scandal, mainCharacter, Barbara Covett]
  • A. Joan Hurst
    Joan Hurst was an Englishwoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley.
  • B. Dorothy Crofts
    Dorothy Crofts was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, a prominent statesman under King Charles II.
  • C. Margaret Sayers Peden
    Margaret Sayers Peden was a prominent American translator renowned for bringing major works of Latin American literature, including those of Isabel Allende, into English.
  • D. Alma Reville
    Alma Reville was a British screenwriter, editor, and assistant director best known for her long creative collaboration with and marriage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.
  • E. Dorothy Cousins
    Dorothy Cousins was the twin sister of American diplomat and artist Paul Child, who was married to famed chef and author Julia Child.
  • 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: Barbara Covett
Triple: [Notes on a Scandal, mainCharacter, Barbara Covett]
Generated description
Barbara Covett is a lonely, manipulative schoolteacher whose obsessive fixation on a colleague drives the psychological drama of "Notes on a Scandal."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbara Covett
Target entity description: Barbara Covett is a lonely, manipulative schoolteacher whose obsessive fixation on a colleague drives the psychological drama of "Notes on a Scandal."
  • A. Joan Hurst
    Joan Hurst was an Englishwoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley.
  • B. Dorothy Crofts
    Dorothy Crofts was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, a prominent statesman under King Charles II.
  • C. Margaret Sayers Peden
    Margaret Sayers Peden was a prominent American translator renowned for bringing major works of Latin American literature, including those of Isabel Allende, into English.
  • D. Alma Reville
    Alma Reville was a British screenwriter, editor, and assistant director best known for her long creative collaboration with and marriage to filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.
  • E. Dorothy Cousins
    Dorothy Cousins was the twin sister of American diplomat and artist Paul Child, who was married to famed chef and author Julia Child.
  • 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_69d80766a21881909f21a1b7421d3b8a completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbafa27f048190bed33a98e28c8d09 completed April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f75498153c819096a28a7f0b608ff5 completed May 3, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7565846108190bb6550505af8ac5d completed May 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f75a2107e081909fd00af67938f2e9 completed May 3, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:44 p.m.