Triple
T18206119
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cecil William Mercer |
E435907
|
entity |
| Predicate | penName |
P3799
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Dornford Yates |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Dornford Yates | Statement: [Cecil William Mercer, penName, Dornford Yates]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dornford Yates Context triple: [Cecil William Mercer, penName, Dornford Yates]
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A.
Dornford Yates
chosen
Dornford Yates was the pen name of British author Cecil William Mercer, best known for his popular early 20th-century adventure and humorous novels and short stories.
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B.
Nigel Balchin
Nigel Balchin was a British novelist and screenwriter known for his psychologically insightful wartime and postwar fiction, including the novel that inspired the film "Separate Lies."
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C.
Victor Canning
Victor Canning was a British novelist and thriller writer known for his suspenseful crime and adventure stories, several of which were adapted for film and television.
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D.
John Bayley
John Bayley was a British literary critic and memoirist best known for his writings about his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch, and their life together.
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E.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b90dba6481908e119eb9aa4ca0cb |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4e2234b988190bbe2c2164d61f65f |
completed | April 19, 2026, 2:09 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:32 a.m.