Triple
T2250436
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Smiley’s People |
E49603
|
entity |
| Predicate | character |
P662
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Toby Esterhase
Toby Esterhase is a fictional Hungarian-born intelligence officer in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, known for his resourcefulness, divided loyalties, and role within the British “Circus” espionage service.
|
E246498
|
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: Toby Esterhase | Statement: [Smiley’s People, character, Toby Esterhase]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toby Esterhase Context triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Toby Esterhase]
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A.
Tobias Fünke
Tobias Fünke is a socially awkward, aspiring actor and former analyst-therapist known for his oblivious behavior and unintentional double entendres in the television series "Arrested Development."
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B.
Toby Pohlen
Toby Pohlen is a member of the team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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C.
Sebastian Maltz
Sebastian Maltz is an actor known for his role in the television drama series "Patrick Melrose."
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D.
Markus Morgenstern
Markus Morgenstern is a mathematician known for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
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E.
Nico Habermann
Nico Habermann was a German-American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, operating systems, and software engineering, and for his influential academic leadership at Carnegie Mellon University.
- 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: Toby Esterhase Triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Toby Esterhase]
Generated description
Toby Esterhase is a fictional Hungarian-born intelligence officer in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, known for his resourcefulness, divided loyalties, and role within the British “Circus” espionage service.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toby Esterhase Target entity description: Toby Esterhase is a fictional Hungarian-born intelligence officer in John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, known for his resourcefulness, divided loyalties, and role within the British “Circus” espionage service.
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A.
Tobias Fünke
Tobias Fünke is a socially awkward, aspiring actor and former analyst-therapist known for his oblivious behavior and unintentional double entendres in the television series "Arrested Development."
-
B.
Toby Pohlen
Toby Pohlen is a member of the team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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C.
Sebastian Maltz
Sebastian Maltz is an actor known for his role in the television drama series "Patrick Melrose."
-
D.
Markus Morgenstern
Markus Morgenstern is a mathematician known for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
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E.
Nico Habermann
Nico Habermann was a German-American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, operating systems, and software engineering, and for his influential academic leadership at Carnegie Mellon University.
- 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.