Triple

T9016892
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Bennett E215615 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The History Boys
The History Boys is a critically acclaimed stage play by Alan Bennett that follows a group of British schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams, exploring themes of education, history, and sexuality with wit and poignancy.
E772910 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 History Boys | Statement: [Alan Bennett, notableWork, The History Boys]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The History Boys
Context triple: [Alan Bennett, notableWork, The History Boys]
  • A. The History Boys (film)
    The History Boys is a 2006 British comedy-drama film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed stage play, following a group of gifted schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams under the guidance of eccentric teachers.
  • B. Rudge in The History Boys
    Rudge in *The History Boys* is a seemingly slow-witted but quietly perceptive and straightforward student whose unexpected academic success challenges others’ assumptions about intelligence and merit.
  • C. The History Boys (Broadway production)
    The History Boys (Broadway production) is the acclaimed New York staging of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play about a group of British schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams, noted for its sharp wit and exploration of education, sexuality, and history.
  • D. Akhtar in The History Boys
    Akhtar in *The History Boys* is a bright, good-humored student in Alan Bennett’s play and film, known for his wit, warmth, and participation in the ensemble of grammar-school boys preparing for Oxbridge entrance exams.
  • E. An Education
    An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film about a bright schoolgirl in 1960s London whose life is transformed by a relationship with an older man, adapted from Lynn Barber’s memoir.
  • 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 History Boys
Triple: [Alan Bennett, notableWork, The History Boys]
Generated description
The History Boys is a critically acclaimed stage play by Alan Bennett that follows a group of British schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams, exploring themes of education, history, and sexuality with wit and poignancy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The History Boys
Target entity description: The History Boys is a critically acclaimed stage play by Alan Bennett that follows a group of British schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams, exploring themes of education, history, and sexuality with wit and poignancy.
  • A. The History Boys (film)
    The History Boys is a 2006 British comedy-drama film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed stage play, following a group of gifted schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams under the guidance of eccentric teachers.
  • B. Rudge in The History Boys
    Rudge in *The History Boys* is a seemingly slow-witted but quietly perceptive and straightforward student whose unexpected academic success challenges others’ assumptions about intelligence and merit.
  • C. The History Boys (Broadway production)
    The History Boys (Broadway production) is the acclaimed New York staging of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play about a group of British schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams, noted for its sharp wit and exploration of education, sexuality, and history.
  • D. Akhtar in The History Boys
    Akhtar in *The History Boys* is a bright, good-humored student in Alan Bennett’s play and film, known for his wit, warmth, and participation in the ensemble of grammar-school boys preparing for Oxbridge entrance exams.
  • E. An Education
    An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film about a bright schoolgirl in 1960s London whose life is transformed by a relationship with an older man, adapted from Lynn Barber’s memoir.
  • 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_69ca83a38aa88190bf1bb80c4548b5e2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc69fd2a888190a20bf18cd226a180 completed April 1, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdbabd6108190aa2f3c6f59d7999c completed April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfdc48f22081909f17ec4c5542da47 completed April 3, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfdcecebe48190a2ede4c8400b3b42 completed April 3, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:06 p.m.