Triple

T17216663
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Germans E417869 entity
Predicate plotSummary P264 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 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.]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.