Triple

T3016702
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Singing Detective E82352 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Philip Marlow
Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
E321142 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: Philip Marlow | Statement: [The Singing Detective, hasCharacter, Philip Marlow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip Marlow
Context triple: [The Singing Detective, hasCharacter, Philip Marlow]
  • A. Philip Marlowe
    Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
  • B. Sam Spade
    Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
  • C. Mike Hammer
    Mike Hammer is a hard-boiled, tough-as-nails private detective created by author Mickey Spillane, known for his violent methods and appearances in numerous crime novels and film adaptations.
  • D. Virgil Tibbs
    Virgil Tibbs is a skilled and composed Black homicide detective who famously investigates a murder in a racially tense Southern town in the film "In the Heat of the Night."
  • E. J. J. Gittes
    J. J. Gittes is the cynical yet principled private investigator portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the classic neo-noir film "Chinatown."
  • 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: Philip Marlow
Triple: [The Singing Detective, hasCharacter, Philip Marlow]
Generated description
Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip Marlow
Target entity description: Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
  • A. Philip Marlowe
    Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
  • B. Sam Spade
    Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
  • C. Mike Hammer
    Mike Hammer is a hard-boiled, tough-as-nails private detective created by author Mickey Spillane, known for his violent methods and appearances in numerous crime novels and film adaptations.
  • D. Virgil Tibbs
    Virgil Tibbs is a skilled and composed Black homicide detective who famously investigates a murder in a racially tense Southern town in the film "In the Heat of the Night."
  • E. J. J. Gittes
    J. J. Gittes is the cynical yet principled private investigator portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the classic neo-noir film "Chinatown."
  • 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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a6c56708190b7d8d08bca727cc1 completed March 8, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1dea9a7c4819087fb6853d839fb1e completed March 11, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1df92c05481908f4490412b5c4885 completed March 11, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1dfe4bfe481909ebd745964940294 completed March 11, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.