Triple

T14700960
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Gun Seller E345293 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Thomas Lang
Thomas Lang is a former Scots Guards officer turned witty, reluctant hero who becomes entangled in an international conspiracy in Hugh Laurie’s comic thriller novel "The Gun Seller."
E1114808 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: Thomas Lang | Statement: [The Gun Seller, mainCharacter, Thomas Lang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Lang
Context triple: [The Gun Seller, mainCharacter, Thomas Lang]
  • A. Mike Lange
    Mike Lange is a musician best known as a member of the Celtic rock band O'Malley's March.
  • B. Greg Lansing
    Greg Lansing is an American college basketball coach best known for his tenure as head coach of the Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball program.
  • C. David Langford
    David Langford is a British science fiction author, critic, and fan writer renowned for his long-running fanzine "Ansible" and his multiple Hugo Awards for fan writing.
  • D. Jonathan Mills
    Jonathan Mills is a member of the British acting family headed by Sir John Mills and the brother of actress Hayley Mills.
  • E. Andrew Lesnie
    Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
  • 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: Thomas Lang
Triple: [The Gun Seller, mainCharacter, Thomas Lang]
Generated description
Thomas Lang is a former Scots Guards officer turned witty, reluctant hero who becomes entangled in an international conspiracy in Hugh Laurie’s comic thriller novel "The Gun Seller."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Lang
Target entity description: Thomas Lang is a former Scots Guards officer turned witty, reluctant hero who becomes entangled in an international conspiracy in Hugh Laurie’s comic thriller novel "The Gun Seller."
  • A. Mike Lange
    Mike Lange is a musician best known as a member of the Celtic rock band O'Malley's March.
  • B. Greg Lansing
    Greg Lansing is an American college basketball coach best known for his tenure as head coach of the Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball program.
  • C. David Langford
    David Langford is a British science fiction author, critic, and fan writer renowned for his long-running fanzine "Ansible" and his multiple Hugo Awards for fan writing.
  • D. Jonathan Mills
    Jonathan Mills is a member of the British acting family headed by Sir John Mills and the brother of actress Hayley Mills.
  • E. Andrew Lesnie
    Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
  • 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_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb605f5948190ab6b20887c4b6833 completed April 14, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdf0841da48190991d5045954a32ab completed May 8, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdf1fd92948190914fe90c31ef7e15 completed May 8, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdf28897308190b1deb1ad1ef8a00c completed May 8, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.