Triple

T4170173
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fawlty Towers E84543 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Polly Sherman
Polly Sherman is a resourceful and long-suffering waitress and maid at the chaotic Torquay hotel in the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
E417861 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: Polly Sherman | Statement: [Fawlty Towers, mainCharacter, Polly Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Polly Sherman
Context triple: [Fawlty Towers, mainCharacter, Polly Sherman]
  • A. Polly Moran
    Polly Moran was an American comedic actress of the silent and early sound film era, best known for her brash, slapstick roles and frequent collaborations with Marie Dressler at MGM.
  • B. Polly Milton
    Polly Milton is the wholesome, principled young heroine of Louisa May Alcott’s novel *An Old-Fashioned Girl*, whose modesty and integrity contrast with the more fashionable society around her.
  • C. Polly Parrish
    Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
  • D. Poli (Polly) Schwartz
    Poli (Polly) Schwartz is a central character in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "Pebble in the Sky," notable for her involvement in the story’s political and romantic conflicts on a future, oppressed Earth.
  • E. Polly Platt
    Polly Platt was an influential American film producer, production designer, and screenwriter known for her key creative contributions to several acclaimed 1970s and 1980s films.
  • 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: Polly Sherman
Triple: [Fawlty Towers, mainCharacter, Polly Sherman]
Generated description
Polly Sherman is a resourceful and long-suffering waitress and maid at the chaotic Torquay hotel in the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Polly Sherman
Target entity description: Polly Sherman is a resourceful and long-suffering waitress and maid at the chaotic Torquay hotel in the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
  • A. Polly Moran
    Polly Moran was an American comedic actress of the silent and early sound film era, best known for her brash, slapstick roles and frequent collaborations with Marie Dressler at MGM.
  • B. Polly Milton
    Polly Milton is the wholesome, principled young heroine of Louisa May Alcott’s novel *An Old-Fashioned Girl*, whose modesty and integrity contrast with the more fashionable society around her.
  • C. Polly Parrish
    Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
  • D. Poli (Polly) Schwartz
    Poli (Polly) Schwartz is a central character in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "Pebble in the Sky," notable for her involvement in the story’s political and romantic conflicts on a future, oppressed Earth.
  • E. Polly Platt
    Polly Platt was an influential American film producer, production designer, and screenwriter known for her key creative contributions to several acclaimed 1970s and 1980s films.
  • 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_69aed932cab48190b80ffe35f7029ae1 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af02c87cc88190a9ec3712db18a8a7 completed March 9, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57f4ef1a08190a232ed94595a86e8 completed March 14, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b580e08e888190b48ddae4435c984a completed March 14, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5817b52bc8190aba6863a9ef05acf completed March 14, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:44 p.m.