Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Anniversary E417874 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Mr Johnston
Mr Johnston is a central character in the play "The Anniversary," around whom much of the drama and interpersonal conflict revolves.
E1258315 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: Mr Johnston | Statement: [The Anniversary, featuresCharacter, Mr Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr Johnston
Context triple: [The Anniversary, featuresCharacter, Mr Johnston]
  • A. John Johnston
    John Johnston was a 19th-century distiller credited with establishing the original operation that evolved into the renowned Lagavulin whisky distillery on Islay, Scotland.
  • B. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
  • C. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a Scottish statesman and diplomat who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • D. Harry Johnston
    Harry Johnston was a British explorer, colonial administrator, and naturalist known for his work in central Africa and for bringing the okapi to the attention of Western science.
  • E. Harry Johnston
    Harry Johnston was an English footballer best known as a long-serving Blackpool defender and club captain, regarded as one of the finest centre-halves of his era.
  • 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: Mr Johnston
Triple: [The Anniversary, featuresCharacter, Mr Johnston]
Generated description
Mr Johnston is a central character in the play "The Anniversary," around whom much of the drama and interpersonal conflict revolves.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr Johnston
Target entity description: Mr Johnston is a central character in the play "The Anniversary," around whom much of the drama and interpersonal conflict revolves.
  • A. John Johnston
    John Johnston was a 19th-century distiller credited with establishing the original operation that evolved into the renowned Lagavulin whisky distillery on Islay, Scotland.
  • B. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
  • C. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a Scottish statesman and diplomat who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • D. Harry Johnston
    Harry Johnston was a British explorer, colonial administrator, and naturalist known for his work in central Africa and for bringing the okapi to the attention of Western science.
  • E. Harry Johnston
    Harry Johnston was an English footballer best known as a long-serving Blackpool defender and club captain, regarded as one of the finest centre-halves of his era.
  • 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_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.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a016b8609dc8190bfd3e1b6ff715d65 completed May 11, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a016c5018e48190974c124c3433bcc6 completed May 11, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:38 a.m.