Triple

T3051727
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The History Boys (Broadway production) E83584 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Samuel Barnett
Samuel Barnett is an English actor best known for originating the role of Posner in Alan Bennett’s play "The History Boys" on stage and screen.
E327200 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: Samuel Barnett | Statement: [The History Boys (Broadway production), castMember, Samuel Barnett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Barnett
Context triple: [The History Boys (Broadway production), castMember, Samuel Barnett]
  • A. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • B. Andrew Bennison
    Andrew Bennison was an American screenwriter active during the early sound era of Hollywood cinema.
  • C. James Bowler
    James Bowler is a senior British civil servant who serves as the Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, overseeing the UK government's economic and financial administration.
  • D. Lionel Birch
    Lionel Birch was the husband of renowned Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath.
  • E. Henry Braham
    Henry Braham is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as The Suicide Squad, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Nanny McPhee.
  • 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: Samuel Barnett
Triple: [The History Boys (Broadway production), castMember, Samuel Barnett]
Generated description
Samuel Barnett is an English actor best known for originating the role of Posner in Alan Bennett’s play "The History Boys" on stage and screen.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Barnett
Target entity description: Samuel Barnett is an English actor best known for originating the role of Posner in Alan Bennett’s play "The History Boys" on stage and screen.
  • A. Samuel Garbett
    Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
  • B. Andrew Bennison
    Andrew Bennison was an American screenwriter active during the early sound era of Hollywood cinema.
  • C. James Bowler
    James Bowler is a senior British civil servant who serves as the Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, overseeing the UK government's economic and financial administration.
  • D. Lionel Birch
    Lionel Birch was the husband of renowned Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath.
  • E. Henry Braham
    Henry Braham is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as The Suicide Squad, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Nanny McPhee.
  • 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_69ad8b24924c8190a9bb6f61d519e4ae completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9bf274f88190a759f9ce3da47c35 completed March 8, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2034c337481909c1b1ae304b89c24 completed March 12, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b20482147c8190852110e01c0988f3 completed March 12, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b205d86ab0819084a352c0b634a026 completed March 12, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.