Triple

T6634968
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scoop E150424 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object John Courteney Boot
John Courteney Boot is a fictional novelist and war correspondent in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," serving as a parody of fashionable literary journalists of the interwar period.
E598953 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 Courteney Boot | Statement: [Scoop, character, John Courteney Boot]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Courteney Boot
Context triple: [Scoop, character, John Courteney Boot]
  • A. John French
    John French was a British Army officer who served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force during the early years of World War I.
  • B. Fletcher Marron
    Fletcher Marron is the young son of superstar singer and actress Rachel Marron in the film "The Bodyguard."
  • C. Cecil Mountford
    Cecil Mountford was a renowned New Zealand rugby league player and coach, best known for his successful career with Wigan and his influential role in the sport during the mid-20th century.
  • D. John Glen
    John Glen is a British film director best known for directing five James Bond movies during the 1980s.
  • E. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • 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 Courteney Boot
Triple: [Scoop, character, John Courteney Boot]
Generated description
John Courteney Boot is a fictional novelist and war correspondent in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," serving as a parody of fashionable literary journalists of the interwar period.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Courteney Boot
Target entity description: John Courteney Boot is a fictional novelist and war correspondent in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," serving as a parody of fashionable literary journalists of the interwar period.
  • A. John French
    John French was a British Army officer who served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force during the early years of World War I.
  • B. Fletcher Marron
    Fletcher Marron is the young son of superstar singer and actress Rachel Marron in the film "The Bodyguard."
  • C. Cecil Mountford
    Cecil Mountford was a renowned New Zealand rugby league player and coach, best known for his successful career with Wigan and his influential role in the sport during the mid-20th century.
  • D. John Glen
    John Glen is a British film director best known for directing five James Bond movies during the 1980s.
  • E. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • 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_69c687f0ceb08190bf40807bfc605fa5 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6afcc1c9c819087fcde19a5d49fd2 completed March 27, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cbf71874819080cc89b6740b1567 completed March 27, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd0bb0e48190ae51fde4b4631f65 completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cd90b9208190b4c5bf44db073314 completed March 27, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:59 p.m.