Triple

T4170176
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fawlty Towers E84543 entity
Predicate characterPortrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales
Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales is the sharp-tongued, long-suffering co-owner of the Torquay hotel in the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers," portrayed by actress Prunella Scales.
E417862 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: Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales | Statement: [Fawlty Towers, characterPortrayedBy, Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales
Context triple: [Fawlty Towers, characterPortrayedBy, Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales]
  • A. Basil Fawlty
    Basil Fawlty is the snobbish, short-tempered hotel owner and central comedic character from the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
  • B. Linda Partridge
    Linda Partridge is a British geneticist and biogerontologist renowned for her pioneering research on the biology of ageing and age-related diseases.
  • C. Helga Cranston
    Helga Cranston was a film editor best known for her work on Laurence Olivier’s 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet."
  • D. Betty Farrally
    Betty Farrally was a Canadian dancer, teacher, and co-founder who played a pivotal role in establishing what became the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, one of North America’s oldest ballet companies.
  • E. Shirley Valentine
    Shirley Valentine is a 1989 British comedy-drama film, based on Willy Russell’s play, about a middle-aged Liverpool housewife who rediscovers herself during a life-changing trip to Greece.
  • 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: Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales
Triple: [Fawlty Towers, characterPortrayedBy, Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales]
Generated description
Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales is the sharp-tongued, long-suffering co-owner of the Torquay hotel in the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers," portrayed by actress Prunella Scales.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales
Target entity description: Sybil Fawlty – Prunella Scales is the sharp-tongued, long-suffering co-owner of the Torquay hotel in the classic British sitcom "Fawlty Towers," portrayed by actress Prunella Scales.
  • A. Basil Fawlty
    Basil Fawlty is the snobbish, short-tempered hotel owner and central comedic character from the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
  • B. Linda Partridge
    Linda Partridge is a British geneticist and biogerontologist renowned for her pioneering research on the biology of ageing and age-related diseases.
  • C. Helga Cranston
    Helga Cranston was a film editor best known for her work on Laurence Olivier’s 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet."
  • D. Betty Farrally
    Betty Farrally was a Canadian dancer, teacher, and co-founder who played a pivotal role in establishing what became the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, one of North America’s oldest ballet companies.
  • E. Shirley Valentine
    Shirley Valentine is a 1989 British comedy-drama film, based on Willy Russell’s play, about a middle-aged Liverpool housewife who rediscovers herself during a life-changing trip to Greece.
  • 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.