Triple

T4170295
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Basil Fawlty E84545 entity
Predicate notableInteraction P1700 FINISHED
Object Major Gowen
Major Gowen is a bumbling, elderly retired military officer and long-term resident at the British sitcom Fawlty Towers' hotel, known for his vague eccentricity and obliviousness.
E417885 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: Major Gowen | Statement: [Basil Fawlty, notableInteraction, Major Gowen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Gowen
Context triple: [Basil Fawlty, notableInteraction, Major Gowen]
  • A. Colonel Osborne
    Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
  • B. Major Applegate
    Major Applegate is a comic big-game hunter character in the classic screwball film "Bringing Up Baby."
  • C. Major John Howard
    Major John Howard was a British Army officer renowned for leading the glider-borne coup de main operation to capture Pegasus Bridge during the D-Day landings in World War II.
  • D. Major Frank Goodden
    Major Frank Goodden was a British test pilot and aviation pioneer closely associated with the Royal Aircraft Factory during World War I.
  • E. Major John Frost
    Major John Frost was a distinguished British Army officer and paratroop commander in the Second World War, best known for his leadership during airborne operations such as the Battle of Arnhem.
  • 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: Major Gowen
Triple: [Basil Fawlty, notableInteraction, Major Gowen]
Generated description
Major Gowen is a bumbling, elderly retired military officer and long-term resident at the British sitcom Fawlty Towers' hotel, known for his vague eccentricity and obliviousness.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Gowen
Target entity description: Major Gowen is a bumbling, elderly retired military officer and long-term resident at the British sitcom Fawlty Towers' hotel, known for his vague eccentricity and obliviousness.
  • A. Colonel Osborne
    Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
  • B. Major Applegate
    Major Applegate is a comic big-game hunter character in the classic screwball film "Bringing Up Baby."
  • C. Major John Howard
    Major John Howard was a British Army officer renowned for leading the glider-borne coup de main operation to capture Pegasus Bridge during the D-Day landings in World War II.
  • D. Major Frank Goodden
    Major Frank Goodden was a British test pilot and aviation pioneer closely associated with the Royal Aircraft Factory during World War I.
  • E. Major John Frost
    Major John Frost was a distinguished British Army officer and paratroop commander in the Second World War, best known for his leadership during airborne operations such as the Battle of Arnhem.
  • 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.