Triple

T9406854
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert B. Parker E226607 entity
Predicate notableCharacterCreated P9708 FINISHED
Object Spenser
Spenser is a tough, wisecracking Boston private investigator and the protagonist of Robert B. Parker’s long-running crime novel series.
E797265 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: Spenser | Statement: [Robert B. Parker, notableCharacterCreated, Spenser]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spenser
Context triple: [Robert B. Parker, notableCharacterCreated, Spenser]
  • A. Campion
    Campion is a surname most notably associated with New Zealand film director and screenwriter Jane Campion, acclaimed for works such as "The Piano."
  • B. Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser was a major English Renaissance poet best known for his epic allegorical poem "The Faerie Queene."
  • C. Arthur Brooke
    Arthur Brooke was a 16th-century English poet best known for writing the narrative poem that served as the primary source for Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet."
  • D. Lydgate
    Lydgate is a small village in the civil parish of Saddleworth, within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.
  • E. Sir Philip Sidney
    Sir Philip Sidney was a 16th-century English poet, courtier, and soldier renowned for works like "Astrophel and Stella" and "The Defence of Poesy."
  • 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: Spenser
Triple: [Robert B. Parker, notableCharacterCreated, Spenser]
Generated description
Spenser is a tough, wisecracking Boston private investigator and the protagonist of Robert B. Parker’s long-running crime novel series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spenser
Target entity description: Spenser is a tough, wisecracking Boston private investigator and the protagonist of Robert B. Parker’s long-running crime novel series.
  • A. Campion
    Campion is a surname most notably associated with New Zealand film director and screenwriter Jane Campion, acclaimed for works such as "The Piano."
  • B. Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser was a major English Renaissance poet best known for his epic allegorical poem "The Faerie Queene."
  • C. Arthur Brooke
    Arthur Brooke was a 16th-century English poet best known for writing the narrative poem that served as the primary source for Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet."
  • D. Lydgate
    Lydgate is a small village in the civil parish of Saddleworth, within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.
  • E. Sir Philip Sidney
    Sir Philip Sidney was a 16th-century English poet, courtier, and soldier renowned for works like "Astrophel and Stella" and "The Defence of Poesy."
  • 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_69ca843280488190bc65600e843ef9e6 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd51c3fc988190ac34cc9e09f8ebfc completed April 1, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d107a0bc9c819089f7c422b4222f8e completed April 4, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1082f41b48190b8588bb986028f59 completed April 4, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d108bab8c881909748ffbb4b23f4ba completed April 4, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:47 p.m.