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]
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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.
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B.
Raymond Collishaw
Raymond Collishaw was a Canadian First World War flying ace and one of the highest-scoring fighter pilots of the conflict.
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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.
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D.
Harry Lonsdale
Harry Lonsdale was an early 20th-century actor known for his roles in silent films.
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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.
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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.