Triple

T15466780
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Please, Mister Postman E372050 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician and former Home Secretary who later became an author, including of the memoir "Please, Mister Postman."
E76098 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: Alan Johnson | Statement: [Please, Mister Postman, author, Alan Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Johnson
Context triple: [Please, Mister Postman, author, Alan Johnson]
  • A. Alan Johnson
    Alan Johnson is the protagonist of the novel "This Boy," around whom the story’s central events and character development revolve.
  • B. Alan Johnson
    Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician who served as Home Secretary and held several other senior cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
  • C. John W. Gardner
    John W. Gardner was an American reformer, educator, and public official best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and for founding the citizens’ advocacy organization Common Cause.
  • D. Patrick O’Hare
    Patrick O’Hare was one of the civilians killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in County Down, Northern Ireland, when loyalist gunmen opened fire in a village pub during a World Cup football match.
  • E. John O. Pastore
    John O. Pastore was a prominent U.S. senator from Rhode Island known for his influential role in federal oversight of atomic energy policy and regulation.
  • 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: Alan Johnson
Triple: [Please, Mister Postman, author, Alan Johnson]
Generated description
Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician and former Home Secretary who later became an author, including of the memoir "Please, Mister Postman."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Johnson
Target entity description: Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician and former Home Secretary who later became an author, including of the memoir "Please, Mister Postman."
  • A. Alan Johnson chosen
    Alan Johnson is a British Labour politician who served as Home Secretary and held several other senior cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
  • B. Alan Johnson
    Alan Johnson is the protagonist of the novel "This Boy," around whom the story’s central events and character development revolve.
  • C. John W. Gardner
    John W. Gardner was an American reformer, educator, and public official best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and for founding the citizens’ advocacy organization Common Cause.
  • D. Patrick O’Hare
    Patrick O’Hare was one of the civilians killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in County Down, Northern Ireland, when loyalist gunmen opened fire in a village pub during a World Cup football match.
  • E. John O. Pastore
    John O. Pastore was a prominent U.S. senator from Rhode Island known for his influential role in federal oversight of atomic energy policy and regulation.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85cc8bd308190886949510b42e764 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03f69a31c81909a749247b6615d91 completed April 16, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3d4448c08190ac640642cc8fc41f completed May 9, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff406bce408190817e8dbc60b51b0a completed May 9, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff40fdf81c8190b4f700ae1c7a876f completed May 9, 2026, 2:13 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:33 a.m.