Triple

T11036377
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series) E260896 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Anthony Bate
Anthony Bate was a British character actor known for his numerous television and film roles, particularly in espionage and drama productions.
E903579 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: Anthony Bate | Statement: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series), castMember, Anthony Bate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anthony Bate
Context triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series), castMember, Anthony Bate]
  • A. Thomas Byerley
    Thomas Byerley was a key manager and business partner in the Wedgwood pottery enterprise, helping to expand and oversee its commercial operations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. Thomas Rainsborough
    Thomas Rainsborough was a prominent English Civil War officer and leading Leveller figure known for advocating radical democratic reforms and greater political rights for common people.
  • C. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • D. Edward Bury
    Edward Bury was a 19th-century English locomotive engineer known for designing and supplying early steam engines for pioneering railways, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
  • E. John Bagford
    John Bagford was an English antiquarian and book collector of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for his extensive collections of printed ephemera and contributions to early bibliographical studies.
  • 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: Anthony Bate
Triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series), castMember, Anthony Bate]
Generated description
Anthony Bate was a British character actor known for his numerous television and film roles, particularly in espionage and drama productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anthony Bate
Target entity description: Anthony Bate was a British character actor known for his numerous television and film roles, particularly in espionage and drama productions.
  • A. Thomas Byerley
    Thomas Byerley was a key manager and business partner in the Wedgwood pottery enterprise, helping to expand and oversee its commercial operations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. Thomas Rainsborough
    Thomas Rainsborough was a prominent English Civil War officer and leading Leveller figure known for advocating radical democratic reforms and greater political rights for common people.
  • C. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • D. Edward Bury
    Edward Bury was a 19th-century English locomotive engineer known for designing and supplying early steam engines for pioneering railways, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
  • E. John Bagford
    John Bagford was an English antiquarian and book collector of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for his extensive collections of printed ephemera and contributions to early bibliographical studies.
  • 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_69d6aa979bdc8190bf0e79104cc098c1 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d797e9e3fc8190802195ac9fcb8e28 completed April 9, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e73e7f68819097213e4601c07ee8 completed April 18, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f2c889dc81909a04c1db0509e3d9 completed April 18, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f4746dbc8190a0e28202ad5e6b4f completed April 18, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:25 p.m.