Triple

T18354687

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	A Foreign Affair	`E439757`	entity
Predicate	featuresCharacter	`P626`	FINISHED
Object	Captain John Pringle	`—`	NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Captain John Pringle | Statement: [A Foreign Affair, featuresCharacter, Captain John Pringle]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Captain John Pringle
Context triple: [A Foreign Affair, featuresCharacter, Captain John Pringle]

A. Captain William Newberry
Captain William Newberry was a British intelligence officer in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence, known for his role in the covert Cairo Gang targeted by Michael Collins’s IRA.
B. Captain John Nicholson
Captain John Nicholson was a 19th-century mariner after whom New Zealand’s Wellington Harbour was named, reflecting his role in the region’s early maritime history.
C. Major Angus Pollock
Major Angus Pollock is a comedic military character portrayed by David Niven in the 1956 British film "The Iron Petticoat."
D. Captain John Page
Captain John Page was a U.S. Army officer whose service and legacy led to Page County, Iowa, being named in his honor.
E. Captain William Renton
Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Captain John Pringle
Target entity description: Captain John Pringle is a fictional U.S. military officer and romantic lead in the 1948 postwar comedy film "A Foreign Affair."

A. Captain William Newberry
Captain William Newberry was a British intelligence officer in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence, known for his role in the covert Cairo Gang targeted by Michael Collins’s IRA.
B. Captain John Nicholson
Captain John Nicholson was a 19th-century mariner after whom New Zealand’s Wellington Harbour was named, reflecting his role in the region’s early maritime history.
C. Major Angus Pollock
Major Angus Pollock is a comedic military character portrayed by David Niven in the 1956 British film "The Iron Petticoat."
D. Captain John Page
Captain John Page was a U.S. Army officer whose service and legacy led to Page County, Iowa, being named in his honor.
E. Captain William Renton
Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
F. None of above. chosen

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_69d8b918221c8190a9f7b563d64ac677`	completed	April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e516d458148190849ed28fa90eb92b`	completed	April 19, 2026, 5:54 p.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.