Triple
T15044216
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Our Age |
E379179
|
entity |
| Predicate | writtenBy |
P806
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
British historian Noel Annan
Noel Annan was a prominent British historian, intellectual, and academic administrator known for his influential writings on modern British society and the intellectual elite.
|
E1133783
|
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: British historian Noel Annan | Statement: [Our Age, writtenBy, British historian Noel Annan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British historian Noel Annan Context triple: [Our Age, writtenBy, British historian Noel Annan]
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A.
Brian Harrison (historian)
Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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B.
John Julius Norwich
John Julius Norwich was a British historian, travel writer, and television presenter renowned for his works on the history of Venice, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean world.
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C.
Noel Barber
Noel Barber was a British journalist and novelist known for his adventurous reporting and bestselling historical romances, often drawing on his experiences during World War II.
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D.
Alan Fairford
Alan Fairford is a conscientious young Scottish lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Redgauntlet."
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E.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British historian and scholar renowned for his influential research on Western esotericism, occultism, and their intersections with modern political ideologies.
- 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: British historian Noel Annan Triple: [Our Age, writtenBy, British historian Noel Annan]
Generated description
Noel Annan was a prominent British historian, intellectual, and academic administrator known for his influential writings on modern British society and the intellectual elite.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British historian Noel Annan Target entity description: Noel Annan was a prominent British historian, intellectual, and academic administrator known for his influential writings on modern British society and the intellectual elite.
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A.
Brian Harrison (historian)
Brian Harrison is a British historian known for his work on modern British social and political history and for serving as editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
-
B.
John Julius Norwich
John Julius Norwich was a British historian, travel writer, and television presenter renowned for his works on the history of Venice, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean world.
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C.
Noel Barber
Noel Barber was a British journalist and novelist known for his adventurous reporting and bestselling historical romances, often drawing on his experiences during World War II.
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D.
Alan Fairford
Alan Fairford is a conscientious young Scottish lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Redgauntlet."
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E.
Paul Preston
Paul Preston is a fictional protagonist from the 1967 British horror film "The Mummy’s Shroud," which centers on an ancient Egyptian curse unleashed by a resurrected mummy.
- 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_69d85cd64d108190853797a95c11cc45 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ded830c3c08190a87b81abbbb75377 |
completed | April 15, 2026, 12:13 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe9de54380819084568664b63322d2 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 2:37 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fea0791f1c81908dcad401fa3ac245 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 2:48 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fea11a35a88190a5ad6f261fd2d9dc |
completed | May 9, 2026, 2:51 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3 a.m.