Triple

T16524428
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Key to Rebecca E401397 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Major William Vandam
Major William Vandam is a British intelligence officer in World War II who serves as the determined protagonist hunting a German spy in Ken Follett’s thriller "The Key to Rebecca."
E1218868 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: Major William Vandam | Statement: [The Key to Rebecca, mainCharacter, Major William Vandam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major William Vandam
Context triple: [The Key to Rebecca, mainCharacter, Major William Vandam]
  • A. Major Vonreg
    Major Vonreg is a crimson-armored First Order TIE pilot and antagonist in the animated series Star Wars Resistance.
  • B. Major James Martino
    Major James Martino is the son of American actress Eva Amurri.
  • C. Major Ronald Ferguson
    Major Ronald Ferguson was a British Army officer and polo manager best known as the father of Sarah, Duchess of York, and maternal grandfather of Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice.
  • D. Major Marquis Warren
    Major Marquis Warren is a former Union cavalry officer turned bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino’s film "The Hateful Eight," known for his sharp wit, moral ambiguity, and pivotal role in the story’s tense standoff.
  • E. Marshal Sam Mackenna
    Marshal Sam Mackenna is the tough, reluctant lawman protagonist of the 1969 Western film "Mackenna's Gold," drawn into a perilous quest for a legendary cache of Apache gold.
  • 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: Major William Vandam
Triple: [The Key to Rebecca, mainCharacter, Major William Vandam]
Generated description
Major William Vandam is a British intelligence officer in World War II who serves as the determined protagonist hunting a German spy in Ken Follett’s thriller "The Key to Rebecca."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major William Vandam
Target entity description: Major William Vandam is a British intelligence officer in World War II who serves as the determined protagonist hunting a German spy in Ken Follett’s thriller "The Key to Rebecca."
  • A. Major Vonreg
    Major Vonreg is a crimson-armored First Order TIE pilot and antagonist in the animated series Star Wars Resistance.
  • B. Major James Martino
    Major James Martino is the son of American actress Eva Amurri.
  • C. Major Ronald Ferguson
    Major Ronald Ferguson was a British Army officer and polo manager best known as the father of Sarah, Duchess of York, and maternal grandfather of Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice.
  • D. Major Marquis Warren
    Major Marquis Warren is a former Union cavalry officer turned bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino’s film "The Hateful Eight," known for his sharp wit, moral ambiguity, and pivotal role in the story’s tense standoff.
  • E. Marshal Sam Mackenna
    Marshal Sam Mackenna is the tough, reluctant lawman protagonist of the 1969 Western film "Mackenna's Gold," drawn into a perilous quest for a legendary cache of Apache gold.
  • 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_69d883838abc8190bc79cb2d41733ce2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32ed323c081908218460aa4ae3cf6 completed April 18, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00608b7f6081909912dd575979f8d7 completed May 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0062b6637c81908a619e36af7d6989 completed May 10, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00639024d08190a46256691e89953a completed May 10, 2026, 10:53 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:14 a.m.