Triple

T3389335
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Very English Scandal E71379 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceMaterial P2806 FINISHED
Object John Preston
John Preston is a British journalist and novelist best known for writing the non-fiction book that inspired the television drama "A Very English Scandal."
 E353337 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: John Preston | Statement: [A Very English Scandal, authorOfSourceMaterial, John Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Preston
Context triple: [A Very English Scandal, authorOfSourceMaterial, John Preston]
  • A. Andy Burnham
    Andy Burnham is a British Labour Party politician who serves as the Mayor of Greater Manchester and is known for his advocacy on regional devolution and social justice issues.
  • B. Ken Livingstone
    Ken Livingstone is a British Labour politician and former Mayor of London known for his left-wing policies and prominent role in urban governance and environmental initiatives.
  • C. David Furnish
    David Furnish is a Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive best known as the longtime partner and husband of musician Elton John.
  • D. William Pugh
    William Pugh is a computer scientist best known for inventing the skip list data structure and contributing to the Java Memory Model.
  • E. Bob Hepple
    Bob Hepple was a South African-born lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, and later a prominent legal scholar in the United Kingdom who played a key role in the struggle against apartheid.
  • 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: John Preston
Triple: [A Very English Scandal, authorOfSourceMaterial, John Preston]
Generated description
John Preston is a British journalist and novelist best known for writing the non-fiction book that inspired the television drama "A Very English Scandal."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Preston
Target entity description: John Preston is a British journalist and novelist best known for writing the non-fiction book that inspired the television drama "A Very English Scandal."
  • A. Andy Burnham
    Andy Burnham is a British Labour Party politician who serves as the Mayor of Greater Manchester and is known for his advocacy on regional devolution and social justice issues.
  • B. Ken Livingstone
    Ken Livingstone is a British Labour politician and former Mayor of London known for his left-wing policies and prominent role in urban governance and environmental initiatives.
  • C. David Furnish
    David Furnish is a Canadian filmmaker and former advertising executive best known as the longtime partner and husband of musician Elton John.
  • D. William Pugh
    William Pugh is a computer scientist best known for inventing the skip list data structure and contributing to the Java Memory Model.
  • E. Bob Hepple
    Bob Hepple was a South African-born lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, and later a prominent legal scholar in the United Kingdom who played a key role in the struggle against apartheid.
  • 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_69ad85a8fd9c819095ecedf838d2bf1b completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb666e514819090560d43bfaf55b8 completed March 8, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3345a95ac819098be25233b8e0ed5 completed March 12, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b33542a1008190a1cc4aec663d97bc completed March 12, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3391c4e24819082e9a0f50c1afab8 completed March 12, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.