Triple

T15012974
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Painted Veil (1934 film) E377884 entity
Predicate leadCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Dr. Walter Fane
Dr. Walter Fane is a reserved, idealistic British physician whose troubled marriage and moral awakening unfold against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in W. Somerset Maugham’s story "The Painted Veil."
E1132403 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: Dr. Walter Fane | Statement: [The Painted Veil (1934 film), leadCharacter, Dr. Walter Fane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Walter Fane
Context triple: [The Painted Veil (1934 film), leadCharacter, Dr. Walter Fane]
  • A. Dr. James Mortimer
    Dr. James Mortimer is a country doctor and friend of the Baskerville family who seeks Sherlock Holmes’s help in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
  • B. Dr. Henry Armitage
    Dr. Henry Armitage is a learned and resolute librarian and occult scholar from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, best known for confronting supernatural horrors in “The Dunwich Horror.”
  • C. Dr. Erasmus Craven
    Dr. Erasmus Craven is a timid but good-hearted sorcerer, portrayed by Vincent Price, who becomes entangled in a magical rivalry in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
  • D. Victor Prynne
    Victor Prynne is a conventional, somewhat stuffy English gentleman who serves as the new husband of Amanda and comic foil to the more volatile central couple in Noël Coward’s play "Private Lives."
  • E. Michael Medwin
    Michael Medwin was a British actor and film and television producer known for his prolific character roles and for producing notable British films from the 1960s onward.
  • 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: Dr. Walter Fane
Triple: [The Painted Veil (1934 film), leadCharacter, Dr. Walter Fane]
Generated description
Dr. Walter Fane is a reserved, idealistic British physician whose troubled marriage and moral awakening unfold against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in W. Somerset Maugham’s story "The Painted Veil."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Walter Fane
Target entity description: Dr. Walter Fane is a reserved, idealistic British physician whose troubled marriage and moral awakening unfold against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in W. Somerset Maugham’s story "The Painted Veil."
  • A. Dr. James Mortimer
    Dr. James Mortimer is a country doctor and friend of the Baskerville family who seeks Sherlock Holmes’s help in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
  • B. Dr. Henry Armitage
    Dr. Henry Armitage is a learned and resolute librarian and occult scholar from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, best known for confronting supernatural horrors in “The Dunwich Horror.”
  • C. Dr. Erasmus Craven
    Dr. Erasmus Craven is a timid but good-hearted sorcerer, portrayed by Vincent Price, who becomes entangled in a magical rivalry in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
  • D. Victor Prynne
    Victor Prynne is a conventional, somewhat stuffy English gentleman who serves as the new husband of Amanda and comic foil to the more volatile central couple in Noël Coward’s play "Private Lives."
  • E. Michael Medwin
    Michael Medwin was a British actor and film and television producer known for his prolific character roles and for producing notable British films from the 1960s onward.
  • 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_69d85cd3a3c881908c71fc424d459c17 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded7613cec8190ac25e3f68c5d0edf completed April 15, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe96aa3c888190a65e7b3c3b130131 completed May 9, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe97af0a0c8190bca3ea103d05fd99 completed May 9, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe98b18ab48190b2a47418904e6643 completed May 9, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:55 a.m.