Triple

T16245159
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Devil Is Waiting E394352 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Charles Ferguson
Charles Ferguson is a fictional intelligence operative and central protagonist in Jack Higgins’s thriller novels.
E1203087 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: Charles Ferguson | Statement: [A Devil Is Waiting, featuresCharacter, Charles Ferguson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Ferguson
Context triple: [A Devil Is Waiting, featuresCharacter, Charles Ferguson]
  • A. David Guggenheim
    David Guggenheim is an American screenwriter and producer best known for creating the TV series "Designated Survivor" and writing the film "Safe House."
  • B. David Pilger
    David Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though no widely recognized public information about him is available.
  • C. Paul Hirsch
    Paul Hirsch is an American film editor renowned for his work on major Hollywood films, including the original Star Wars.
  • D. Paul Hirsch
    Paul Hirsch was a German Social Democratic politician who briefly served as Minister President of Prussia during the early Weimar Republic.
  • E. Robert Ginzler
    Robert Ginzler was a prominent American Broadway orchestrator known for his inventive, jazz-inflected arrangements in mid-20th-century musical theatre.
  • 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: Charles Ferguson
Triple: [A Devil Is Waiting, featuresCharacter, Charles Ferguson]
Generated description
Charles Ferguson is a fictional intelligence operative and central protagonist in Jack Higgins’s thriller novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Ferguson
Target entity description: Charles Ferguson is a fictional intelligence operative and central protagonist in Jack Higgins’s thriller novels.
  • A. David Guggenheim
    David Guggenheim is an American screenwriter and producer best known for creating the TV series "Designated Survivor" and writing the film "Safe House."
  • B. David Pilger
    David Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though no widely recognized public information about him is available.
  • C. Paul Hirsch
    Paul Hirsch is an American film editor renowned for his work on major Hollywood films, including the original Star Wars.
  • D. Paul Hirsch
    Paul Hirsch was a German Social Democratic politician who briefly served as Minister President of Prussia during the early Weimar Republic.
  • E. Robert Ginzler
    Robert Ginzler was a prominent American Broadway orchestrator known for his inventive, jazz-inflected arrangements in mid-20th-century musical theatre.
  • 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_69d87f2171208190951025e526947816 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e24561d250819096f709ea8751fcb9 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a000ee135b881909cc1b6919bc7af29 completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00132b0ca4819080f45f929ac39eca completed May 10, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00138ca1b48190bd7d79699b9e2114 completed May 10, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.