Triple

T2008040
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject On the Beach E43629 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceMaterial P2806 FINISHED
Object Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute was a British-born novelist and aeronautical engineer best known for his post-apocalyptic novel "On the Beach" and other mid-20th-century popular fiction.
E224465 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: Nevil Shute | Statement: [On the Beach, authorOfSourceMaterial, Nevil Shute]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nevil Shute
Context triple: [On the Beach, authorOfSourceMaterial, Nevil Shute]
  • A. Richard Hughes
    Richard Hughes is a British economist and civil servant who serves as the head of the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, overseeing analysis of the government's public finances and economic forecasts.
  • B. Jack Higgins
    Jack Higgins was a bestselling British thriller novelist, best known for his World War II espionage novel "The Eagle Has Landed."
  • C. Peter Fleming
    Peter Fleming was a British travel writer, journalist, and adventurer, best known for his travel books and for his work as a wartime intelligence officer.
  • D. William Fleming
    William Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, education, and sports.
  • E. David Urquhart
    David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
  • 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: Nevil Shute
Triple: [On the Beach, authorOfSourceMaterial, Nevil Shute]
Generated description
Nevil Shute was a British-born novelist and aeronautical engineer best known for his post-apocalyptic novel "On the Beach" and other mid-20th-century popular fiction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nevil Shute
Target entity description: Nevil Shute was a British-born novelist and aeronautical engineer best known for his post-apocalyptic novel "On the Beach" and other mid-20th-century popular fiction.
  • A. Richard Hughes
    Richard Hughes is a British economist and civil servant who serves as the head of the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, overseeing analysis of the government's public finances and economic forecasts.
  • B. Jack Higgins
    Jack Higgins was a bestselling British thriller novelist, best known for his World War II espionage novel "The Eagle Has Landed."
  • C. Peter Fleming
    Peter Fleming was a British travel writer, journalist, and adventurer, best known for his travel books and for his work as a wartime intelligence officer.
  • D. William Fleming
    William Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, education, and sports.
  • E. David Urquhart
    David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
  • 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_69a88716e9f08190946313fdc949e3cf completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb89aca908190b8b659af65afdf6f completed March 7, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0ae12d708190bcfe91e3ab53f04e completed March 8, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0b63b85c819096fc8ad12ace4d22 completed March 8, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0bc55fcc8190bf117ef1328b8a76 completed March 8, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.