Triple
T16297426
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sicily: A Short History from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra |
E395684
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Julius Norwich |
E92947
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John Julius Norwich | Statement: [Sicily: A Short History from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra, author, John Julius Norwich]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Julius Norwich Context triple: [Sicily: A Short History from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra, author, John Julius Norwich]
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A.
John Julius Norwich
chosen
John Julius Norwich was a British historian, travel writer, and television presenter renowned for his works on the history of Venice, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean world.
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B.
John Guy
John Guy is a British historian and biographer best known for his acclaimed works on Tudor history, including a major biography of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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C.
Sebastian Brock
Sebastian Brock is a leading British scholar of Syriac studies, renowned for his translations and research on early Syriac Christian literature.
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D.
Alan Fairford
Alan Fairford is a conscientious young Scottish lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Redgauntlet."
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E.
Sir John Boardman
Sir John Boardman is a distinguished British classical art historian and archaeologist renowned for his scholarship on ancient Greek sculpture, pottery, and iconography.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d87f23bb088190a16fbb91a1957ea5 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e25e2f486c8190b73c15f59335cde2 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 4:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a004f3d8f188190969b75d82c6b13f0 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 9:26 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:06 a.m.