Triple

T17247413
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sense of an Ending E418663 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Nick Payne
Nick Payne is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his intellectually rich, emotionally nuanced works such as the acclaimed play "Constellations" and various film and television scripts.
E1259191 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: Nick Payne | Statement: [The Sense of an Ending, screenwriter, Nick Payne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick Payne
Context triple: [The Sense of an Ending, screenwriter, Nick Payne]
  • A. Neil Payne
    Neil Payne is a musician best known as a member of the Scottish indie rock supergroup Reindeer Section.
  • B. Bruce Payne
    Bruce Payne is a British character actor best known for playing intense villains in action and genre films, including the antagonist in "Passenger 57."
  • C. David Pegg
    David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
  • D. Ben Weeks
    Ben Weeks is a central character in Larry Kramer's play "The Normal Heart," portrayed as the brother of activist Ned Weeks and representing a more conservative, establishment perspective on the early AIDS crisis.
  • E. Robert Payne
    Robert Payne is a songwriter best known for contributing lyrics to the song "Midnight Rider."
  • 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: Nick Payne
Triple: [The Sense of an Ending, screenwriter, Nick Payne]
Generated description
Nick Payne is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his intellectually rich, emotionally nuanced works such as the acclaimed play "Constellations" and various film and television scripts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick Payne
Target entity description: Nick Payne is a British playwright and screenwriter known for his intellectually rich, emotionally nuanced works such as the acclaimed play "Constellations" and various film and television scripts.
  • A. Neil Payne
    Neil Payne is a musician best known as a member of the Scottish indie rock supergroup Reindeer Section.
  • B. Bruce Payne
    Bruce Payne is a British character actor best known for playing intense villains in action and genre films, including the antagonist in "Passenger 57."
  • C. David Pegg
    David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
  • D. Ben Weeks
    Ben Weeks is a central character in Larry Kramer's play "The Normal Heart," portrayed as the brother of activist Ned Weeks and representing a more conservative, establishment perspective on the early AIDS crisis.
  • E. Robert Payne
    Robert Payne is a songwriter best known for contributing lyrics to the song "Midnight Rider."
  • 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_69d886d9ab108190b70edd8d17aa1204 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42e24a4508190bbcc70c36b2b9c13 completed April 19, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0170f744d8819099f10bbba364586d completed May 11, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01726ae14081909d11434e378d3e1c completed May 11, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a017525d8108190b2fff7d96beff345 completed May 11, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:39 a.m.