Triple

T6044250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hannibal (novel) E134625 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Barney Matthews
Barney Matthews is a fictional orderly and caretaker who appears in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, notably as one of Lecter’s few consistently respectful and sympathetic attendants.
E564299 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: Barney Matthews | Statement: [Hannibal (novel), featuresCharacter, Barney Matthews]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barney Matthews
Context triple: [Hannibal (novel), featuresCharacter, Barney Matthews]
  • A. Barney Pilling
    Barney Pilling is a British film editor known for his work on acclaimed films such as "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
  • B. Barry Jackson
    Barry Jackson was a prominent British theatre director and producer best known for his innovative leadership in regional theatre and modern stagings of classic plays.
  • C. Roy Skeggs
    Roy Skeggs was a British film and television producer best known for revitalizing Hammer Film Productions in the 1970s and 1980s and steering the company into television and lower-budget horror projects.
  • D. Terry Nutkins
    Terry Nutkins was a British naturalist and television presenter best known for his wildlife programmes for children on the BBC.
  • E. Richard Dawson
    Richard Dawson was a British-American actor and television personality best known as the original host of the game show "Family Feud" and for his role as Corporal Newkirk on the sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
  • 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: Barney Matthews
Triple: [Hannibal (novel), featuresCharacter, Barney Matthews]
Generated description
Barney Matthews is a fictional orderly and caretaker who appears in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, notably as one of Lecter’s few consistently respectful and sympathetic attendants.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barney Matthews
Target entity description: Barney Matthews is a fictional orderly and caretaker who appears in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, notably as one of Lecter’s few consistently respectful and sympathetic attendants.
  • A. Barney Pilling
    Barney Pilling is a British film editor known for his work on acclaimed films such as "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
  • B. Barry Jackson
    Barry Jackson was a prominent British theatre director and producer best known for his innovative leadership in regional theatre and modern stagings of classic plays.
  • C. Roy Skeggs
    Roy Skeggs was a British film and television producer best known for revitalizing Hammer Film Productions in the 1970s and 1980s and steering the company into television and lower-budget horror projects.
  • D. Terry Nutkins
    Terry Nutkins was a British naturalist and television presenter best known for his wildlife programmes for children on the BBC.
  • E. Richard Dawson
    Richard Dawson was a British-American actor and television personality best known as the original host of the game show "Family Feud" and for his role as Corporal Newkirk on the sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
  • 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_69c00876a69881908088a2626d3b2666 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c056e2b1148190908c4dc43abee266 completed March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1139f53d881908f2aa8211fc7539f completed March 23, 2026, 10:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1153b6ce8819090a13d349ccd2d6c completed March 23, 2026, 10:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c115acfe748190b91c88df81c2e1c2 completed March 23, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:09 p.m.