Triple

T8738309
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Gardner (British writer) E207438 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The King of the Thieves
The King of the Thieves is a crime novel by British author John Gardner that follows the intricate schemes and underworld dealings of professional criminals.
E754781 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: The King of the Thieves | Statement: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The King of the Thieves]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The King of the Thieves
Context triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The King of the Thieves]
  • A. Once a Thief
    Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
  • B. The Holy Thief
    The Holy Thief is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century Shrewsbury and centered on the theft of a saint’s reliquary.
  • C. The Good Thief
    The Good Thief is a 2002 crime drama film directed by Neil Jordan that follows an aging gambler and thief attempting one last elaborate heist on the French Riviera.
  • D. The Thief and the Dogs
    The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
  • E. The Vagabond King
    The Vagabond King is a 1925 operetta, later adapted into films, that romanticizes the life of French poet François Villon through a blend of lyrical music and swashbuckling drama.
  • 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: The King of the Thieves
Triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The King of the Thieves]
Generated description
The King of the Thieves is a crime novel by British author John Gardner that follows the intricate schemes and underworld dealings of professional criminals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The King of the Thieves
Target entity description: The King of the Thieves is a crime novel by British author John Gardner that follows the intricate schemes and underworld dealings of professional criminals.
  • A. Once a Thief
    Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
  • B. The Holy Thief
    The Holy Thief is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century Shrewsbury and centered on the theft of a saint’s reliquary.
  • C. The Good Thief
    The Good Thief is a 2002 crime drama film directed by Neil Jordan that follows an aging gambler and thief attempting one last elaborate heist on the French Riviera.
  • D. The Thief and the Dogs
    The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
  • E. The Vagabond King
    The Vagabond King is a 1925 operetta, later adapted into films, that romanticizes the life of French poet François Villon through a blend of lyrical music and swashbuckling drama.
  • 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_69ca835a03a081909d4d4cd01a18c9fb completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5d470c8c81909ead395ef704c6ba completed March 31, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf42d5dd508190854fbbc2541aa819 completed April 3, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf440051bc8190ad9d649150187932 completed April 3, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf4473ee0081908ed22eb0d855d7dd completed April 3, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:38 p.m.