Triple

T2217682
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Smiley E48068 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object John Bingham
John Bingham was a British intelligence officer and crime novelist whose espionage work and character are widely regarded as a key inspiration for John le Carré’s fictional spymaster George Smiley.
E264354 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: John Bingham | Statement: [George Smiley, basedOn, John Bingham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bingham
Context triple: [George Smiley, basedOn, John Bingham]
  • A. John Bingham
    John Bingham was a prominent 19th-century American congressman and Radical Republican best known as a principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  • B. Thomas L. Kane
    Thomas L. Kane was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and advocate for the Latter-day Saints who later became a Union Army officer during the Civil War.
  • C. James Sansbury
    James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
  • D. Horace White
    Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • 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: John Bingham
Triple: [George Smiley, basedOn, John Bingham]
Generated description
John Bingham was a British intelligence officer and crime novelist whose espionage work and character are widely regarded as a key inspiration for John le Carré’s fictional spymaster George Smiley.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bingham
Target entity description: John Bingham was a British intelligence officer and crime novelist whose espionage work and character are widely regarded as a key inspiration for John le Carré’s fictional spymaster George Smiley.
  • A. John Bingham
    John Bingham was a prominent 19th-century American congressman and Radical Republican best known as a principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  • B. Thomas L. Kane
    Thomas L. Kane was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and advocate for the Latter-day Saints who later became a Union Army officer during the Civil War.
  • C. James Sansbury
    James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
  • D. Horace White
    Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Richard Dobbs Spaight
    Richard Dobbs Spaight was an American Founding Father from North Carolina who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as the state's governor and a member of Congress.
  • 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_69a88aa1ee708190862c8c378c41e9eb completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc010bd4c8190ace293b37eac1de5 completed March 7, 2026, 6:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aebf17c28c81908f6b51c9ac6bc6ea completed March 9, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aebfbfdd78819081dc228abe0b1aff completed March 9, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aec02c2d0c81908b2d149efc342ccf completed March 9, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.