Triple

T18375894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Van E446310 entity
Predicate screenplayAdaptationOf P1926 FINISHED
Object The Van (novel)
The Van (novel) is a comic work by Irish author Roddy Doyle, the third book in his Barrytown Trilogy, following the misadventures of two unemployed friends who start a fish-and-chip van business in Dublin.
E1324652 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: The Van (novel) | Statement: [The Van, screenplayAdaptationOf, The Van (novel)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Van (novel)
Context triple: [The Van, screenplayAdaptationOf, The Van (novel)]
  • A. The Van
    "The Van" is a 1996 Irish comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, about two friends who start a fish-and-chip van business in Dublin after one of them loses his job.
  • B. Vane’s Story
    Vane’s Story is a lesser-known poetic work by the 19th-century Scottish poet James Thomson, noted for its melancholic and reflective tone.
  • C. The Vaught
    The Vaught is the popular nickname for Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, the University of Mississippi’s primary football venue in Oxford, Mississippi.
  • D. The Vanishers
    The Vanishers is a 1964 spy novel by Donald Hamilton featuring secret agent Matt Helm in a tense Cold War-era mission.
  • E. De Vol
    De Vol is a surname most notably associated with Frank De Vol, an American arranger, composer, and actor known for his work in film and television music.
  • 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: The Van (novel)
Triple: [The Van, screenplayAdaptationOf, The Van (novel)]
Generated description
The Van (novel) is a comic work by Irish author Roddy Doyle, the third book in his Barrytown Trilogy, following the misadventures of two unemployed friends who start a fish-and-chip van business in Dublin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Van (novel)
Target entity description: The Van (novel) is a comic work by Irish author Roddy Doyle, the third book in his Barrytown Trilogy, following the misadventures of two unemployed friends who start a fish-and-chip van business in Dublin.
  • A. The Van
    "The Van" is a 1996 Irish comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, about two friends who start a fish-and-chip van business in Dublin after one of them loses his job.
  • B. Vane’s Story
    Vane’s Story is a lesser-known poetic work by the 19th-century Scottish poet James Thomson, noted for its melancholic and reflective tone.
  • C. The Vaught
    The Vaught is the popular nickname for Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, the University of Mississippi’s primary football venue in Oxford, Mississippi.
  • D. The Vanishers
    The Vanishers is a 1964 spy novel by Donald Hamilton featuring secret agent Matt Helm in a tense Cold War-era mission.
  • E. De Vol
    De Vol is a surname most notably associated with Frank De Vol, an American arranger, composer, and actor known for his work in film and television music.
  • 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_69d8b9f370b88190b1e5081c2c238e7f completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e51759353481908aa2de599fd2cf3b completed April 19, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a040fd060ac819085c23e931203ec3d completed May 13, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0410995964819093a16a750fd81319 completed May 13, 2026, 5:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04110bce308190b2c6f0c78708b84d completed May 13, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:45 a.m.