Triple

T21715969
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cruel Sea E536028 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart is a young Royal Navy officer whose experiences and development during World War II form a central focus of Nicholas Monsarrat’s naval novel "The Cruel Sea."
E1497818 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: Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart | Statement: [The Cruel Sea, mainCharacter, Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart
Context triple: [The Cruel Sea, mainCharacter, Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart]
  • A. Ensign Rutherford
    Ensign Rutherford is a cybernetically enhanced Starfleet engineer and one of the main lower-deck crew members in the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks.
  • B. Ensign Worth Bagley
    Ensign Worth Bagley was a U.S. Navy officer notable as the only American naval officer killed in action during the Spanish–American War.
  • C. Ensign Charles Parker
    Ensign Charles Parker is the bumbling, good-natured junior officer from the 1960s World War II sitcom "McHale's Navy," known for his comedic mishaps and loyalty to his crew.
  • D. Lt. j.g. Doug Roberts
    Lt. j.g. Doug Roberts is the idealistic and compassionate junior naval officer who serves as the central protagonist of the play and film "Mister Roberts," depicting his struggles with duty, authority, and longing for combat service during World War II.
  • E. Lieutenant Nelson
    Lieutenant Nelson is a central character in Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "Orphans of the Sky," set aboard a generation starship whose inhabitants have forgotten their true situation.
  • 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: Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart
Triple: [The Cruel Sea, mainCharacter, Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart]
Generated description
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart is a young Royal Navy officer whose experiences and development during World War II form a central focus of Nicholas Monsarrat’s naval novel "The Cruel Sea."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart
Target entity description: Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart is a young Royal Navy officer whose experiences and development during World War II form a central focus of Nicholas Monsarrat’s naval novel "The Cruel Sea."
  • A. Ensign Rutherford
    Ensign Rutherford is a cybernetically enhanced Starfleet engineer and one of the main lower-deck crew members in the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks.
  • B. Ensign Worth Bagley
    Ensign Worth Bagley was a U.S. Navy officer notable as the only American naval officer killed in action during the Spanish–American War.
  • C. Ensign Charles Parker
    Ensign Charles Parker is the bumbling, good-natured junior officer from the 1960s World War II sitcom "McHale's Navy," known for his comedic mishaps and loyalty to his crew.
  • D. Lt. j.g. Doug Roberts
    Lt. j.g. Doug Roberts is the idealistic and compassionate junior naval officer who serves as the central protagonist of the play and film "Mister Roberts," depicting his struggles with duty, authority, and longing for combat service during World War II.
  • E. Lieutenant Nelson
    Lieutenant Nelson is a central character in Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "Orphans of the Sky," set aboard a generation starship whose inhabitants have forgotten their true situation.
  • 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.