Triple

T3884276
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The 39 Steps E92900 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Richard Hannay
Richard Hannay is the resourceful gentleman-hero and amateur spy who becomes entangled in international intrigue in John Buchan’s classic adventure novel "The 39 Steps."
E394447 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: Richard Hannay | Statement: [The 39 Steps, mainCharacter, Richard Hannay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Hannay
Context triple: [The 39 Steps, mainCharacter, Richard Hannay]
  • A. George Malko
    George Malko is a screenwriter best known for his work on the film adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s political thriller "The Dogs of War."
  • 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. Francis Bond Head
    Francis Bond Head was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for his controversial role in governing Upper Canada during the period leading up to the Rebellions of 1837.
  • D. Frank Campion
    Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
  • E. Thackery Binx
    Thackery Binx is a bewitched 17th-century boy cursed to live forever as a talking black cat in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus."
  • 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: Richard Hannay
Triple: [The 39 Steps, mainCharacter, Richard Hannay]
Generated description
Richard Hannay is the resourceful gentleman-hero and amateur spy who becomes entangled in international intrigue in John Buchan’s classic adventure novel "The 39 Steps."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Hannay
Target entity description: Richard Hannay is the resourceful gentleman-hero and amateur spy who becomes entangled in international intrigue in John Buchan’s classic adventure novel "The 39 Steps."
  • A. George Malko
    George Malko is a screenwriter best known for his work on the film adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s political thriller "The Dogs of War."
  • 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. Francis Bond Head
    Francis Bond Head was a 19th-century British colonial administrator best known for his controversial role in governing Upper Canada during the period leading up to the Rebellions of 1837.
  • D. Frank Campion
    Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
  • E. Thackery Binx
    Thackery Binx is a bewitched 17th-century boy cursed to live forever as a talking black cat in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus."
  • 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_69aed9697de0819087c2559295ff3d12 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec9029908190a7b36a3827734db1 completed March 9, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5125bee048190ba7553797e9fd254 completed March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512e3721c8190accd26499191c153 completed March 14, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b513618b888190acda94dcc91d24d2 completed March 14, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.