Triple

T13448495
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner E320545 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Colin Smith
Colin Smith is the rebellious teenage protagonist of Alan Sillitoe’s novella and its film adaptation, whose long-distance running becomes a symbol of defiance against authority and class oppression.
E1041874 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: Colin Smith | Statement: [The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, mainCharacter, Colin Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colin Smith
Context triple: [The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, mainCharacter, Colin Smith]
  • A. Andy Smith
    Andy Smith was an early 20th-century American college football coach best known for leading the University of California Golden Bears to national prominence with multiple undefeated seasons.
  • B. Colin Mullen
    Colin Mullen is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Mullen.
  • C. Colin Meadows
    Colin Meadows is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Meadows, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
  • D. Colin Morrison
    Colin Morrison is a relatively obscure individual about whom no widely recognized public information is available.
  • E. Colin Smyth
    Colin Smyth is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament and held various party and parliamentary roles.
  • 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: Colin Smith
Triple: [The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, mainCharacter, Colin Smith]
Generated description
Colin Smith is the rebellious teenage protagonist of Alan Sillitoe’s novella and its film adaptation, whose long-distance running becomes a symbol of defiance against authority and class oppression.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colin Smith
Target entity description: Colin Smith is the rebellious teenage protagonist of Alan Sillitoe’s novella and its film adaptation, whose long-distance running becomes a symbol of defiance against authority and class oppression.
  • A. Andy Smith
    Andy Smith was an early 20th-century American college football coach best known for leading the University of California Golden Bears to national prominence with multiple undefeated seasons.
  • B. Colin Mullen
    Colin Mullen is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Mullen.
  • C. Colin Meadows
    Colin Meadows is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Meadows, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
  • D. Colin Morrison
    Colin Morrison is a relatively obscure individual about whom no widely recognized public information is available.
  • E. Colin Smyth
    Colin Smyth is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament and held various party and parliamentary roles.
  • 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaef758b08190b9aa5ec7082cd417 completed April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7462340548190b156a8213f5e2556 completed May 3, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7485a63e08190bea26a64df4ed2c8 completed May 3, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f748afd5c081908799d48114f13ce5 completed May 3, 2026, 1:08 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:41 p.m.