Triple

T2268002
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Hollander E50191 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Thick of It
The Thick of It is a British political satire television series created by Armando Iannucci that skewers government spin and bureaucracy through sharp, profanity-laced dialogue and mockumentary-style storytelling.
E249926 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: The Thick of It | Statement: [Tom Hollander, notableWork, The Thick of It]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Thick of It
Context triple: [Tom Hollander, notableWork, The Thick of It]
  • A. Veep
    Veep is an American political satire television series that follows the inept and often chaotic career of a fictional U.S. vice president and later president, Selina Meyer.
  • B. Portlandia
    Portlandia is a satirical sketch comedy television series that humorously explores hipster culture and eccentric urban life in Portland, Oregon.
  • C. Our Friends in the North
    Our Friends in the North is a critically acclaimed British television drama series that chronicles the lives and political awakenings of four friends in Newcastle over several decades from the 1960s to the 1990s.
  • D. Spitting Image
    Spitting Image is a British satirical television show famous for its caricatured puppet portrayals of politicians and celebrities.
  • E. The Politician
    The Politician is a 17th-century stage play by English dramatist James Shirley, known as one of his notable tragic works exploring court intrigue and moral corruption.
  • 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: The Thick of It
Triple: [Tom Hollander, notableWork, The Thick of It]
Generated description
The Thick of It is a British political satire television series created by Armando Iannucci that skewers government spin and bureaucracy through sharp, profanity-laced dialogue and mockumentary-style storytelling.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Thick of It
Target entity description: The Thick of It is a British political satire television series created by Armando Iannucci that skewers government spin and bureaucracy through sharp, profanity-laced dialogue and mockumentary-style storytelling.
  • A. Veep
    Veep is an American political satire television series that follows the inept and often chaotic career of a fictional U.S. vice president and later president, Selina Meyer.
  • B. Portlandia
    Portlandia is a satirical sketch comedy television series that humorously explores hipster culture and eccentric urban life in Portland, Oregon.
  • C. Our Friends in the North
    Our Friends in the North is a critically acclaimed British television drama series that chronicles the lives and political awakenings of four friends in Newcastle over several decades from the 1960s to the 1990s.
  • D. Spitting Image
    Spitting Image is a British satirical television show famous for its caricatured puppet portrayals of politicians and celebrities.
  • E. The Politician
    The Politician is a 17th-century stage play by English dramatist James Shirley, known as one of his notable tragic works exploring court intrigue and moral corruption.
  • 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_69a88b01e0048190ba96431b5f990ba9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1bbb49c8190822c7d809375e879 completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71d70e488190a2f8276dd7a7bf9e completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7470e3ac8190ac6e8f7cd10a4262 completed March 9, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae751895808190aac33870d80aab55 completed March 9, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.