Triple

T2250453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smiley’s People E49603 entity
Predicate featuresOrganization P629 FINISHED
Object Circus (fictional British intelligence service)
The Circus is the codename for the British Secret Intelligence Service in John le Carré’s spy novels, serving as the central setting for much of George Smiley’s espionage work.
E17914 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: Circus (fictional British intelligence service) | Statement: [Smiley’s People, featuresOrganization, Circus (fictional British intelligence service)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Circus (fictional British intelligence service)
Context triple: [Smiley’s People, featuresOrganization, Circus (fictional British intelligence service)]
  • A. Security Service (MI5)
    The Security Service (MI5) is the United Kingdom’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency responsible for protecting national security against threats such as terrorism, espionage, and cyber attacks.
  • B. Secret Intelligence Service
    The Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, is the United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence agency responsible for gathering and analyzing overseas information to support national security and government policy.
  • C. Special Operations Executive
    The Special Operations Executive was a secret British World War II organization responsible for conducting espionage, sabotage, and supporting resistance movements in enemy-occupied territories.
  • D. Secret Intelligence Branch
    The Secret Intelligence Branch was the espionage arm of the World War II-era U.S. Office of Strategic Services, responsible for collecting and analyzing covert intelligence behind enemy lines.
  • E. Central Intelligence Group
    The Central Intelligence Group was the short-lived U.S. post–World War II intelligence agency that served as the direct predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • 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: Circus (fictional British intelligence service)
Triple: [Smiley’s People, featuresOrganization, Circus (fictional British intelligence service)]
Generated description
The Circus is the codename for the British Secret Intelligence Service in John le Carré’s spy novels, serving as the central setting for much of George Smiley’s espionage work.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Circus (fictional British intelligence service)
Target entity description: The Circus is the codename for the British Secret Intelligence Service in John le Carré’s spy novels, serving as the central setting for much of George Smiley’s espionage work.
  • A. Security Service (MI5)
    The Security Service (MI5) is the United Kingdom’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency responsible for protecting national security against threats such as terrorism, espionage, and cyber attacks.
  • B. Secret Intelligence Service chosen
    The Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, is the United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence agency responsible for gathering and analyzing overseas information to support national security and government policy.
  • C. Special Operations Executive
    The Special Operations Executive was a secret British World War II organization responsible for conducting espionage, sabotage, and supporting resistance movements in enemy-occupied territories.
  • D. Secret Intelligence Branch
    The Secret Intelligence Branch was the espionage arm of the World War II-era U.S. Office of Strategic Services, responsible for collecting and analyzing covert intelligence behind enemy lines.
  • E. Central Intelligence Group
    The Central Intelligence Group was the short-lived U.S. post–World War II intelligence agency that served as the direct predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • F. None of above.

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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc11b61888190af3b11b87dc8e0dc completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1948cc8190921b9fcc12c28db0 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6b748cfc8190903590abf822d71d completed March 9, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6be54c84819085753fa6d59e655c completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.