Triple

T2250434
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smiley’s People E49603 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Peter Guillam
Peter Guillam is a loyal, resourceful British intelligence officer and close ally of spymaster George Smiley in John le Carré’s espionage novels.
E246496 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: Peter Guillam | Statement: [Smiley’s People, character, Peter Guillam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Guillam
Context triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Peter Guillam]
  • A. Harry Palmer
    Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
  • B. Mike Southon
    Mike Southon is a British cinematographer known for his work on feature films, television, and commercials.
  • C. Hugo Carmody
    Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
  • D. Michael Foale
    Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
  • E. Jacques Bergerac
    Jacques Bergerac was a French actor and businessman known for his film roles in the 1950s and 1960s and for his high-profile marriages to Hollywood stars.
  • 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: Peter Guillam
Triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Peter Guillam]
Generated description
Peter Guillam is a loyal, resourceful British intelligence officer and close ally of spymaster George Smiley in John le Carré’s espionage novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Guillam
Target entity description: Peter Guillam is a loyal, resourceful British intelligence officer and close ally of spymaster George Smiley in John le Carré’s espionage novels.
  • A. Harry Palmer
    Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
  • B. Mike Southon
    Mike Southon is a British cinematographer known for his work on feature films, television, and commercials.
  • C. Hugo Carmody
    Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
  • D. Michael Foale
    Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
  • E. Jacques Bergerac
    Jacques Bergerac was a French actor and businessman known for his film roles in the 1950s and 1960s and for his high-profile marriages to Hollywood stars.
  • 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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc11b61888190af3b11b87dc8e0dc completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1948cc8190921b9fcc12c28db0 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6b748cfc8190903590abf822d71d completed March 9, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6be54c84819085753fa6d59e655c completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.