Triple

T17216453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Touch of Class E417864 entity
Predicate featuresFictionalCharacter P50141 FINISHED
Object Polly Sherman
Polly Sherman is a fictional character best known as the sharp-witted, long-suffering waitress and receptionist in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
E417861 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: Polly Sherman | Statement: [A Touch of Class, featuresFictionalCharacter, Polly Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Polly Sherman
Context triple: [A Touch of Class, featuresFictionalCharacter, Polly Sherman]
  • A. Polly Sherman
    Polly Sherman is a resourceful and long-suffering waitress and maid at the chaotic Torquay hotel in the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
  • B. Polly Moran
    Polly Moran was an American comedic actress of the silent and early sound film era, best known for her brash, slapstick roles and frequent collaborations with Marie Dressler at MGM.
  • C. Polly Milton
    Polly Milton is the wholesome, principled young heroine of Louisa May Alcott’s novel *An Old-Fashioned Girl*, whose modesty and integrity contrast with the more fashionable society around her.
  • D. Polly Parrish
    Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
  • E. Polly Perkins
    Polly Perkins is the intrepid newspaper reporter and leading heroine in the retro-futuristic adventure film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
  • 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: Polly Sherman
Triple: [A Touch of Class, featuresFictionalCharacter, Polly Sherman]
Generated description
Polly Sherman is a fictional character best known as the sharp-witted, long-suffering waitress and receptionist in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Polly Sherman
Target entity description: Polly Sherman is a fictional character best known as the sharp-witted, long-suffering waitress and receptionist in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
  • A. Polly Sherman chosen
    Polly Sherman is a resourceful and long-suffering waitress and maid at the chaotic Torquay hotel in the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
  • B. Polly Moran
    Polly Moran was an American comedic actress of the silent and early sound film era, best known for her brash, slapstick roles and frequent collaborations with Marie Dressler at MGM.
  • C. Polly Milton
    Polly Milton is the wholesome, principled young heroine of Louisa May Alcott’s novel *An Old-Fashioned Girl*, whose modesty and integrity contrast with the more fashionable society around her.
  • D. Polly Parrish
    Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
  • E. Polly Perkins
    Polly Perkins is the intrepid newspaper reporter and leading heroine in the retro-futuristic adventure film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
  • 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_69d886d779488190b131369541c04e7d completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42dda6e6c81908dd96f653cd2cba0 completed April 19, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0170eb9954819085e8c078cf137dc5 completed May 11, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a017293d9588190a05faed14c668cc0 completed May 11, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0173423b448190816d10ad7b06da17 completed May 11, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:38 a.m.