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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.