Triple

T6521250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Handful of Dust E151186 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object John Andrew Last
John Andrew Last is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s novel "A Handful of Dust," notable as the young son of the protagonist whose fate underscores the book’s themes of loss and disintegration.
E601436 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: John Andrew Last | Statement: [A Handful of Dust, hasCharacter, John Andrew Last]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Andrew Last
Context triple: [A Handful of Dust, hasCharacter, John Andrew Last]
  • A. John Henshaw
    John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
  • B. William Malloy
    William Malloy was the defendant whose challenge to a contempt conviction for refusing to incriminate himself led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision applying the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to the states.
  • C. Thomas Leroy
    Thomas Leroy is the demanding and manipulative ballet director in the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
  • D. Charles Stillman
    Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
  • E. Edward Anthony Masen
    Edward Anthony Masen is the original human identity of Edward Cullen, the immortal vampire protagonist from Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.
  • 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: John Andrew Last
Triple: [A Handful of Dust, hasCharacter, John Andrew Last]
Generated description
John Andrew Last is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s novel "A Handful of Dust," notable as the young son of the protagonist whose fate underscores the book’s themes of loss and disintegration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Andrew Last
Target entity description: John Andrew Last is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s novel "A Handful of Dust," notable as the young son of the protagonist whose fate underscores the book’s themes of loss and disintegration.
  • A. John Henshaw
    John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
  • B. William Malloy
    William Malloy was the defendant whose challenge to a contempt conviction for refusing to incriminate himself led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision applying the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to the states.
  • C. Thomas Leroy
    Thomas Leroy is the demanding and manipulative ballet director in the psychological thriller film "Black Swan."
  • D. Charles Stillman
    Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
  • E. Edward Anthony Masen
    Edward Anthony Masen is the original human identity of Edward Cullen, the immortal vampire protagonist from Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.
  • 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_69c687f522748190b3058405553cdabd completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ad9431f081909b14b3df3414a55f completed March 27, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cb6f934481908a95d7424aa23414 completed March 27, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd88f66c81909b364a816aeee8bf completed March 27, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6ce3a53cc8190a40d696a22ec65f4 completed March 27, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:45 p.m.