Triple

T19224489
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject When We Were Orphans E480702 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Christopher Banks — 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: Christopher Banks | Statement: [When We Were Orphans, mainCharacter, Christopher Banks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Christopher Banks
Context triple: [When We Were Orphans, mainCharacter, Christopher Banks]
  • A. Philip Banks
    Philip Banks is a stern but loving lawyer-turned-judge and the patriarch of the Banks family in the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," known for his strong moral compass and humorous clashes with his nephew Will.
  • B. John Banks
    John Banks is a musician best known as a member of the 1960s British beat group The Merseybeats.
  • C. John Banks
    John Banks is a fictional child character in the Mary Poppins stories and their film adaptations.
  • D. William Banks
    William Banks is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
  • E. George Barnes
    George Barnes was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, earning multiple Academy Award nominations and one win.
  • 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: Christopher Banks
Target entity description: Christopher Banks is the introspective English detective and narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "When We Were Orphans," whose search for his vanished parents in Shanghai drives the story’s exploration of memory and identity.
  • A. Philip Banks
    Philip Banks is a stern but loving lawyer-turned-judge and the patriarch of the Banks family in the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," known for his strong moral compass and humorous clashes with his nephew Will.
  • B. John Banks
    John Banks is a musician best known as a member of the 1960s British beat group The Merseybeats.
  • C. John Banks
    John Banks is a fictional child character in the Mary Poppins stories and their film adaptations.
  • D. William Banks
    William Banks is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
  • E. George Barnes
    George Barnes was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, earning multiple Academy Award nominations and one win.
  • 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_69d8e8ccb8f48190ad420098e74fb1db completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5fa95743481909314fd14e2c3d189 completed April 20, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:24 p.m.