Triple

T6387851
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Room 40 E143744 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object Alastair Denniston
Alastair Denniston was a British naval intelligence officer and pioneering cryptanalyst who played a key leadership role in the development of codebreaking operations that led to Bletchley Park during both World Wars.
E589717 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: Alastair Denniston | Statement: [Room 40, employed, Alastair Denniston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alastair Denniston
Context triple: [Room 40, employed, Alastair Denniston]
  • A. Frederick Sykes
    Frederick Sykes was a British military officer and air power pioneer who served as an early leader of the Royal Flying Corps and later became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force.
  • B. Raymond Collishaw
    Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
  • C. Reginald Gardiner
    Reginald Gardiner was a British-born actor and comedian known for his sophisticated comic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Harry Lonsdale
    Harry Lonsdale was an early 20th-century actor known for his roles in silent films.
  • E. Sir Cyril Hurcomb
    Sir Cyril Hurcomb was a senior British civil servant and transport administrator who became the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the early years of postwar nationalized transport.
  • 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: Alastair Denniston
Triple: [Room 40, employed, Alastair Denniston]
Generated description
Alastair Denniston was a British naval intelligence officer and pioneering cryptanalyst who played a key leadership role in the development of codebreaking operations that led to Bletchley Park during both World Wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alastair Denniston
Target entity description: Alastair Denniston was a British naval intelligence officer and pioneering cryptanalyst who played a key leadership role in the development of codebreaking operations that led to Bletchley Park during both World Wars.
  • A. Frederick Sykes
    Frederick Sykes was a British military officer and air power pioneer who served as an early leader of the Royal Flying Corps and later became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force.
  • B. Raymond Collishaw
    Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
  • C. Reginald Gardiner
    Reginald Gardiner was a British-born actor and comedian known for his sophisticated comic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Harry Lonsdale
    Harry Lonsdale was an early 20th-century actor known for his roles in silent films.
  • E. Sir Cyril Hurcomb
    Sir Cyril Hurcomb was a senior British civil servant and transport administrator who became the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the early years of postwar nationalized transport.
  • 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_69c008dac1ec81909cef8157ccd69962 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06869dfb88190aeb84c6c61414888 completed March 22, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6388224fc8190aabd6e6d75887367 completed March 27, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6397756c481909ca13339c2186c0a completed March 27, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c63a0a4a108190b474555d8cb1540c completed March 27, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:34 p.m.