Triple

T5398816
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Great Escape E120723 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object James Clavell
James Clavell was an Australian-born British author, screenwriter, and director best known for his epic Asian Saga novels such as "Shōgun" and "Tai-Pan."
E517142 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: James Clavell | Statement: [The Great Escape, screenwriter, James Clavell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Clavell
Context triple: [The Great Escape, screenwriter, James Clavell]
  • A. Ken Follett
    Ken Follett is a bestselling Welsh author renowned for his historical and thriller novels, including "The Pillars of the Earth" and "Eye of the Needle."
  • B. William Boyd
    William Boyd was an American actor best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in numerous films and early television.
  • C. Patrick O'Brian
    Patrick O'Brian was a British novelist best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels set during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • D. James Michener
    James Michener was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his meticulously researched, epic historical novels such as "Tales of the South Pacific" and "Hawaii."
  • E. Alistair MacLean
    Alistair MacLean was a Scottish novelist best known for his fast-paced World War II and Cold War adventure thrillers, many of which were adapted into popular 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: James Clavell
Triple: [The Great Escape, screenwriter, James Clavell]
Generated description
James Clavell was an Australian-born British author, screenwriter, and director best known for his epic Asian Saga novels such as "Shōgun" and "Tai-Pan."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Clavell
Target entity description: James Clavell was an Australian-born British author, screenwriter, and director best known for his epic Asian Saga novels such as "Shōgun" and "Tai-Pan."
  • A. Ken Follett
    Ken Follett is a bestselling Welsh author renowned for his historical and thriller novels, including "The Pillars of the Earth" and "Eye of the Needle."
  • B. William Boyd
    William Boyd was an American actor best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in numerous films and early television.
  • C. Patrick O'Brian
    Patrick O'Brian was a British novelist best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels set during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • D. James Michener
    James Michener was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his meticulously researched, epic historical novels such as "Tales of the South Pacific" and "Hawaii."
  • E. Alistair MacLean
    Alistair MacLean was a Scottish novelist best known for his fast-paced World War II and Cold War adventure thrillers, many of which were adapted into popular 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_69bd4637b92c8190b815b6443ae4b323 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd87499ec4819086f8292625b56f96 completed March 20, 2026, 5:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf337f08088190a3678de0932b8310 completed March 22, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf353ad5f88190964cb52320372133 completed March 22, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3594f98481909a7671b7dfb2b9e7 completed March 22, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:04 p.m.