Triple

T14822606
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nigel Williams E348491 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life
Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life is a darkly comic novel by British writer Nigel Williams that follows the misadventures of an inept would-be poisoner.
E1122892 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: Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life | Statement: [Nigel Williams, notableWork, Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life
Context triple: [Nigel Williams, notableWork, Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life]
  • A. The Poisoners
    The Poisoners is a spy novel by Donald Hamilton featuring his hard-edged government agent Matt Helm in a tense, morally ambiguous Cold War-era mission.
  • B. A Very Expensive Poison
    A Very Expensive Poison is a nonfiction book by journalist Luke Harding that investigates the 2006 poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and explores the broader implications of Russian state-sponsored assassinations.
  • C. The Story of a Crime
    The Story of a Crime is a lesser-known work by 19th-century British novelist Hugh Conway, recognized for his popular mystery and sensation fiction.
  • D. Poisoner in Chief
    Poisoner in Chief is a nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that chronicles CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb’s central role in the agency’s secret mind-control experiments and MK-Ultra program during the Cold War.
  • E. Le Poison
    Le Poison is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, featured in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal," that explores themes of intoxication, desire, and destructive passion.
  • 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: Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life
Triple: [Nigel Williams, notableWork, Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life]
Generated description
Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life is a darkly comic novel by British writer Nigel Williams that follows the misadventures of an inept would-be poisoner.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life
Target entity description: Scenes from a Poisoner’s Life is a darkly comic novel by British writer Nigel Williams that follows the misadventures of an inept would-be poisoner.
  • A. The Poisoners
    The Poisoners is a spy novel by Donald Hamilton featuring his hard-edged government agent Matt Helm in a tense, morally ambiguous Cold War-era mission.
  • B. A Very Expensive Poison
    A Very Expensive Poison is a nonfiction book by journalist Luke Harding that investigates the 2006 poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and explores the broader implications of Russian state-sponsored assassinations.
  • C. The Story of a Crime
    The Story of a Crime is a lesser-known work by 19th-century British novelist Hugh Conway, recognized for his popular mystery and sensation fiction.
  • D. Poisoner in Chief
    Poisoner in Chief is a nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that chronicles CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb’s central role in the agency’s secret mind-control experiments and MK-Ultra program during the Cold War.
  • E. Le Poison
    Le Poison is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, featured in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal," that explores themes of intoxication, desire, and destructive passion.
  • 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_69d822eb8f588190bf53445e730a934f completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69decfe64328819083ce42704cf0602d completed April 14, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe389d7c848190813be06bed7813d7 completed May 8, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe5bc7e6848190a243bcfccaea3a37 completed May 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe5c271c6c8190bb4127cdf8af6647 completed May 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:51 a.m.