Triple

T6739511
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Mitchell E154038 entity
Predicate hasRecurringCharacter P10543 FINISHED
Object Hugo Lamb
Hugo Lamb is a morally ambiguous, charismatic antihero who appears as a recurring character in several of David Mitchell’s interconnected novels.
E634095 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: Hugo Lamb | Statement: [David Mitchell, hasRecurringCharacter, Hugo Lamb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugo Lamb
Context triple: [David Mitchell, hasRecurringCharacter, Hugo Lamb]
  • A. Douglas Hadow
    Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
  • B. Geoffrey Unsworth
    Geoffrey Unsworth was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his visually rich work on numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Anthony Salvin
    Anthony Salvin was a prominent 19th-century English architect best known for his work on the restoration and design of medieval-style castles, country houses, and churches.
  • D. Philip Herriton
    Philip Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," depicted as a conventional, somewhat repressed Englishman whose experiences in Italy challenge his assumptions and emotional reserve.
  • E. Robert Cornthwaite
    Robert Cornthwaite was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction films and numerous television appearances.
  • 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: Hugo Lamb
Triple: [David Mitchell, hasRecurringCharacter, Hugo Lamb]
Generated description
Hugo Lamb is a morally ambiguous, charismatic antihero who appears as a recurring character in several of David Mitchell’s interconnected novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugo Lamb
Target entity description: Hugo Lamb is a morally ambiguous, charismatic antihero who appears as a recurring character in several of David Mitchell’s interconnected novels.
  • A. Douglas Hadow
    Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
  • B. Geoffrey Unsworth
    Geoffrey Unsworth was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his visually rich work on numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Anthony Salvin
    Anthony Salvin was a prominent 19th-century English architect best known for his work on the restoration and design of medieval-style castles, country houses, and churches.
  • D. Philip Herriton
    Philip Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," depicted as a conventional, somewhat repressed Englishman whose experiences in Italy challenge his assumptions and emotional reserve.
  • E. Robert Cornthwaite
    Robert Cornthwaite was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction films and numerous television appearances.
  • 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_69c6880d84d8819095d19de2295f26ac completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d187c8788190b9fc1ebc9a66a520 completed March 27, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c769e417788190a297b277ef0496ff completed March 28, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c76a67bb048190b9bff17d4da4d842 completed March 28, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c76ac6d8b48190869e1733adcbd3d9 completed March 28, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:10 p.m.