Triple
T17216663
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Germans |
E417869
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entity |
| Predicate | plotSummary |
P264
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FINISHED |
| Object | Basil Fawlty tries not to offend German guests but repeatedly brings up World War II and behaves outrageously after a head injury. |
E417869
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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: Basil Fawlty tries not to offend German guests but repeatedly brings up World War II and behaves outrageously after a head injury. | Statement: [The Germans, plotSummary, Basil Fawlty tries not to offend German guests but repeatedly brings up World War II and behaves outrageously after a head injury.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Basil Fawlty tries not to offend German guests but repeatedly brings up World War II and behaves outrageously after a head injury. Context triple: [The Germans, plotSummary, Basil Fawlty tries not to offend German guests but repeatedly brings up World War II and behaves outrageously after a head injury.]
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A.
The German Trauma
The German Trauma is a historical and psychological study by Gitta Sereny examining how ordinary Germans confronted, denied, and remembered the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust after World War II.
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B.
What the Germans Lack
"What the Germans Lack" is a critical section in Friedrich Nietzsche’s *Twilight of the Idols* in which he sharply analyzes and condemns perceived cultural, intellectual, and moral shortcomings of the German people of his time.
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C.
The Germans
chosen
"The Germans" is a famous episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers* in which Basil Fawlty disastrously offends a group of German guests while repeatedly insisting that no one should "mention the war."
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D.
Rudolf Heß: Ich bereue nichts
"Rudolf Heß: Ich bereue nichts" is a biographical book by Wolf Rüdiger Hess defending and contextualizing the life and actions of his father, Nazi leader Rudolf Hess.
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E.
Hilterfingen
Hilterfingen is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Bern, known for its scenic location on the shores of Lake Thun and views of the surrounding Alps.
- 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_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_6a01675381a0819094ed04eac636440b |
completed | May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:38 a.m.