Triple

T5711588
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Dance to the Music of Time E125921 entity
Predicate recurringCharacter P12208 FINISHED
Object Kenneth Widmerpool
Kenneth Widmerpool is an ambitious, socially awkward, and morally ambiguous British bureaucrat whose rise through mid-20th-century society forms one of the central threads of Anthony Powell’s novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.
E541607 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: Kenneth Widmerpool | Statement: [A Dance to the Music of Time, recurringCharacter, Kenneth Widmerpool]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Widmerpool
Context triple: [A Dance to the Music of Time, recurringCharacter, Kenneth Widmerpool]
  • A. Walter Deverell
    Walter Deverell was a 19th-century British Pre-Raphaelite painter known for discovering and first using Elizabeth Siddal as a model in his artworks.
  • B. Cliff Osmond
    Cliff Osmond was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his comic supporting roles in films and television from the 1960s onward.
  • C. Sir Charles Kerruish
    Sir Charles Kerruish was a prominent Manx politician who became one of the Isle of Man’s most influential modern political leaders and a key figure in the development of its self-governance.
  • D. David Wooster
    David Wooster was an American Revolutionary War general from Connecticut who played a significant role in the early struggle for independence.
  • E. Humphrey Searle
    Humphrey Searle was a 20th-century British composer known for his pioneering use of serialism and his influential orchestral and film scores.
  • 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: Kenneth Widmerpool
Triple: [A Dance to the Music of Time, recurringCharacter, Kenneth Widmerpool]
Generated description
Kenneth Widmerpool is an ambitious, socially awkward, and morally ambiguous British bureaucrat whose rise through mid-20th-century society forms one of the central threads of Anthony Powell’s novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Widmerpool
Target entity description: Kenneth Widmerpool is an ambitious, socially awkward, and morally ambiguous British bureaucrat whose rise through mid-20th-century society forms one of the central threads of Anthony Powell’s novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.
  • A. Walter Deverell
    Walter Deverell was a 19th-century British Pre-Raphaelite painter known for discovering and first using Elizabeth Siddal as a model in his artworks.
  • B. Cliff Osmond
    Cliff Osmond was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his comic supporting roles in films and television from the 1960s onward.
  • C. Sir Charles Kerruish
    Sir Charles Kerruish was a prominent Manx politician who became one of the Isle of Man’s most influential modern political leaders and a key figure in the development of its self-governance.
  • D. David Wooster
    David Wooster was an American Revolutionary War general from Connecticut who played a significant role in the early struggle for independence.
  • E. Humphrey Searle
    Humphrey Searle was a 20th-century British composer known for his pioneering use of serialism and his influential orchestral and film scores.
  • 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_69c0082d6fe48190b777fb383769e5c8 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c024b386a08190bd2738d93861edc2 completed March 22, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a72181081909209a38c3ff7460b completed March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05cd2dea88190bc79ca0a7709e7ca completed March 22, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05d8c85f88190a1a962794eeecd8d completed March 22, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.