Triple

T10086601
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sign of Four E215237 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Jonathan Small
Jonathan Small is a vengeful, one-legged antagonist in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of Four," whose backstory of betrayal and lost treasure drives the mystery’s central plot.
 E840805 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: Jonathan Small | Statement: [The Sign of Four, featuresCharacter, Jonathan Small]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jonathan Small
Context triple: [The Sign of Four, featuresCharacter, Jonathan Small]
  • A. Michael Small
    Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
  • B. Edward Small
    Edward Small was a prolific American film producer best known for his work on numerous low- to mid-budget Hollywood features from the 1920s through the 1960s.
  • C. Ian Little
    Ian Little is a British record producer best known for his work with the band Duran Duran during the early 1980s.
  • D. Paul Small
    Paul Small was the husband of American film actress Estelle Taylor, known primarily in relation to her personal life.
  • E. Jack Feore
    Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
  • 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: Jonathan Small
Triple: [The Sign of Four, featuresCharacter, Jonathan Small]
Generated description
Jonathan Small is a vengeful, one-legged antagonist in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of Four," whose backstory of betrayal and lost treasure drives the mystery’s central plot.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jonathan Small
Target entity description: Jonathan Small is a vengeful, one-legged antagonist in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of Four," whose backstory of betrayal and lost treasure drives the mystery’s central plot.
  • A. Michael Small
    Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
  • B. Edward Small
    Edward Small was a prolific American film producer best known for his work on numerous low- to mid-budget Hollywood features from the 1920s through the 1960s.
  • C. Ian Little
    Ian Little is a British record producer best known for his work with the band Duran Duran during the early 1980s.
  • D. Paul Small
    Paul Small was the husband of American film actress Estelle Taylor, known primarily in relation to her personal life.
  • E. Jack Feore
    Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
  • 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_69ca83a1eed081908b2e9580f2ebeea7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd04745b48190a77c422eb76b6660 completed April 2, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2b68b4dbc8190b0ada78fb29feffd completed April 5, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2b7901ea08190a48e984356bd3d71 completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2b8813f9c8190a85462efb7a0a517 completed April 5, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:01 p.m.