Triple

T6898492
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. Somerset Maugham E159432 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Ashenden: Or the British Agent
"Ashenden: Or the British Agent" is a collection of interlinked short stories by W. Somerset Maugham that fictionalizes his experiences in British intelligence during World War I and is considered an early, influential work in the modern spy genre.
E626926 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: Ashenden: Or the British Agent | Statement: [W. Somerset Maugham, notableWork, Ashenden: Or the British Agent]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashenden: Or the British Agent
Context triple: [W. Somerset Maugham, notableWork, Ashenden: Or the British Agent]
  • A. The Secret Agent
    The Secret Agent is a 1907 political and psychological novel by Joseph Conrad that explores anarchism, terrorism, and espionage in late 19th-century London.
  • B. The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
    The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 American pre-Code crime film that introduces the infamous criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu, adapted from Sax Rohmer’s popular series of novels.
  • C. The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
    The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film that parodies the classic Fu Manchu villain character, notable as Peter Sellers’ final movie role.
  • D. The Valley of Fear
    The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that centers on a mysterious murder linked to a secret society and a dark past in the American coalfields.
  • E. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
    The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a gothic horror novel by H. P. Lovecraft about a young man’s obsession with his necromancer ancestor and the dark secrets he uncovers in Providence, Rhode Island.
  • 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: Ashenden: Or the British Agent
Triple: [W. Somerset Maugham, notableWork, Ashenden: Or the British Agent]
Generated description
"Ashenden: Or the British Agent" is a collection of interlinked short stories by W. Somerset Maugham that fictionalizes his experiences in British intelligence during World War I and is considered an early, influential work in the modern spy genre.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashenden: Or the British Agent
Target entity description: "Ashenden: Or the British Agent" is a collection of interlinked short stories by W. Somerset Maugham that fictionalizes his experiences in British intelligence during World War I and is considered an early, influential work in the modern spy genre.
  • A. The Secret Agent
    The Secret Agent is a 1907 political and psychological novel by Joseph Conrad that explores anarchism, terrorism, and espionage in late 19th-century London.
  • B. The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
    The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 American pre-Code crime film that introduces the infamous criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu, adapted from Sax Rohmer’s popular series of novels.
  • C. The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
    The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film that parodies the classic Fu Manchu villain character, notable as Peter Sellers’ final movie role.
  • D. The Valley of Fear
    The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that centers on a mysterious murder linked to a secret society and a dark past in the American coalfields.
  • E. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
    The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a gothic horror novel by H. P. Lovecraft about a young man’s obsession with his necromancer ancestor and the dark secrets he uncovers in Providence, Rhode Island.
  • 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_69c6883822e0819091e321526f20ae0a completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d95d67448190857f36b8115b03f6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c748eb23888190bca6e42dc03ab31b completed March 28, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c749b9f4048190b7f8564f804e1231 completed March 28, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c74a8b5af88190a60782e247129d1a completed March 28, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:24 p.m.