Triple

T499173
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Single Man E10361 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object George Falconer
George Falconer is the introspective, grief-stricken English professor at the center of Christopher Isherwood’s novel and its film adaptation "A Single Man," whose single day of contemplation and routine reveals his struggle with loss and identity.
E62125 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: George Falconer | Statement: [A Single Man, mainCharacter, George Falconer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Falconer
Context triple: [A Single Man, mainCharacter, George Falconer]
  • A. H. Bates Peacock
    H. Bates Peacock was a founder of Geophysical Service Incorporated, an early geophysical exploration company that later evolved into part of Texas Instruments.
  • B. Nicholas Aylward Vigors
    Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
  • C. Thomas Horsfield
    Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.
  • D. George Gray
    George Gray was an American lawyer, U.S. senator from Delaware, and diplomat who served on the commission that negotiated the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish–American War.
  • E. Edward Williams
    Edward Williams was a 19th-century figure involved in the drafting of New Zealand’s foundational Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and Māori chiefs.
  • 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: George Falconer
Triple: [A Single Man, mainCharacter, George Falconer]
Generated description
George Falconer is the introspective, grief-stricken English professor at the center of Christopher Isherwood’s novel and its film adaptation "A Single Man," whose single day of contemplation and routine reveals his struggle with loss and identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Falconer
Target entity description: George Falconer is the introspective, grief-stricken English professor at the center of Christopher Isherwood’s novel and its film adaptation "A Single Man," whose single day of contemplation and routine reveals his struggle with loss and identity.
  • A. H. Bates Peacock
    H. Bates Peacock was a founder of Geophysical Service Incorporated, an early geophysical exploration company that later evolved into part of Texas Instruments.
  • B. Nicholas Aylward Vigors
    Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
  • C. Thomas Horsfield
    Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.
  • D. George Gray
    George Gray was an American lawyer, U.S. senator from Delaware, and diplomat who served on the commission that negotiated the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish–American War.
  • E. Edward Williams
    Edward Williams was a 19th-century figure involved in the drafting of New Zealand’s foundational Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and Māori chiefs.
  • 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_69a2e847df8481909239ec08ccf1e376 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f119b14c8190a5a6b119579c2682 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a481f1ee28819087e90028b89e877e completed March 1, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a482749e78819093f8f81090eedfa2 completed March 1, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a483073dcc8190b05f89a81207d3d2 completed March 1, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.