Triple

T21715951
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cruel Sea E536028 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Monsarrat
Nicholas Monsarrat was a British novelist best known for his World War II naval fiction, particularly his acclaimed novel "The Cruel Sea."
E1497815 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: Nicholas Monsarrat | Statement: [The Cruel Sea, authorOfSourceWork, Nicholas Monsarrat]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Monsarrat
Context triple: [The Cruel Sea, authorOfSourceWork, Nicholas Monsarrat]
  • A. Charles Saumarez Smith
    Charles Saumarez Smith is a British art historian and museum director known for leading major cultural institutions in the United Kingdom.
  • B. John Beresford
    John Beresford was an influential 18th-century Irish statesman and powerful revenue commissioner who played a major role in the administration and development of Dublin.
  • C. Ralph Bagnold
    Ralph Bagnold was a pioneering British desert explorer and engineer whose work in the Sahara laid the foundations for modern aeolian (wind-blown sand) research and influenced both geology and military navigation.
  • D. Avery Markham
    Avery Markham is a wealthy, ruthless Kentucky businessman and criminal figure who serves as a major antagonist in the TV series "Justified."
  • E. Walter Connolly
    Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
  • 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: Nicholas Monsarrat
Triple: [The Cruel Sea, authorOfSourceWork, Nicholas Monsarrat]
Generated description
Nicholas Monsarrat was a British novelist best known for his World War II naval fiction, particularly his acclaimed novel "The Cruel Sea."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Monsarrat
Target entity description: Nicholas Monsarrat was a British novelist best known for his World War II naval fiction, particularly his acclaimed novel "The Cruel Sea."
  • A. Charles Saumarez Smith
    Charles Saumarez Smith is a British art historian and museum director known for leading major cultural institutions in the United Kingdom.
  • B. John Beresford
    John Beresford was an influential 18th-century Irish statesman and powerful revenue commissioner who played a major role in the administration and development of Dublin.
  • C. Ralph Bagnold
    Ralph Bagnold was a pioneering British desert explorer and engineer whose work in the Sahara laid the foundations for modern aeolian (wind-blown sand) research and influenced both geology and military navigation.
  • D. Avery Markham
    Avery Markham is a wealthy, ruthless Kentucky businessman and criminal figure who serves as a major antagonist in the TV series "Justified."
  • E. Walter Connolly
    Walter Connolly was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his comic and often blustery supporting roles in Hollywood films.
  • 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_69e0c46c6dd88190a595375fa6ebd701 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69efd96ab4c88190b76f4a6b7c855039 completed April 27, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a24b38cc08190b765e50d5135a932 completed May 17, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a25d1c95c8190a4140c494ac0a8f7 completed May 17, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a268dd6c4819081c1bf83513bb8b8 completed May 17, 2026, 8:35 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:47 p.m.