Triple

T16248975
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Hannay E394447 entity
Predicate hasFriend P8712 FINISHED
Object Sandy Arbuthnot
Sandy Arbuthnot is a resourceful and chameleon-like Scottish adventurer and master of disguise who appears as one of Richard Hannay’s closest allies in John Buchan’s series of espionage novels.
 E1242741 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: Sandy Arbuthnot | Statement: [Richard Hannay, hasFriend, Sandy Arbuthnot]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sandy Arbuthnot
Context triple: [Richard Hannay, hasFriend, Sandy Arbuthnot]
  • A. Marjorie Parry
    Marjorie Parry was the wife of renowned English conductor and cellist Sir John Barbirolli.
  • B. Audrey Townshend
    Audrey Townshend was a British aristocrat from the influential Townshend family, best known as the wife of Victorian British Army general Sir Redvers Buller.
  • C. Sandy Furness
    Sandy Furness is a powerful media and entertainment mogul in the TV series "Succession," known as a long-time business rival and adversary of Logan Roy.
  • D. Elizabeth Alington
    Elizabeth Alington was a British aristocrat and the wife of Conservative politician and former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
  • E. Ruth Noble
    Ruth Noble is known as the wife of American novelist Winston Groom, author of "Forrest Gump."
  • 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: Sandy Arbuthnot
Triple: [Richard Hannay, hasFriend, Sandy Arbuthnot]
Generated description
Sandy Arbuthnot is a resourceful and chameleon-like Scottish adventurer and master of disguise who appears as one of Richard Hannay’s closest allies in John Buchan’s series of espionage novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sandy Arbuthnot
Target entity description: Sandy Arbuthnot is a resourceful and chameleon-like Scottish adventurer and master of disguise who appears as one of Richard Hannay’s closest allies in John Buchan’s series of espionage novels.
  • A. Marjorie Parry
    Marjorie Parry was the wife of renowned English conductor and cellist Sir John Barbirolli.
  • B. Audrey Townshend
    Audrey Townshend was a British aristocrat from the influential Townshend family, best known as the wife of Victorian British Army general Sir Redvers Buller.
  • C. Sandy Furness
    Sandy Furness is a powerful media and entertainment mogul in the TV series "Succession," known as a long-time business rival and adversary of Logan Roy.
  • D. Elizabeth Alington
    Elizabeth Alington was a British aristocrat and the wife of Conservative politician and former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
  • E. Ruth Noble
    Ruth Noble is known as the wife of American novelist Winston Groom, author of "Forrest Gump."
  • 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_69e24594f23c8190bd59fcb2585cb5e3 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00d447f5cc81908757869f2d1e94a1 completed May 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d55f665c8190bd9a4bf594d0bac4 completed May 10, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d5c38a1081909e13c016f21899d2 completed May 10, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.