Triple

T2557539
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Week in December E56761 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Finbar Veals
Finbar Veals is a character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "A Week in December," depicted as a young man whose storyline explores contemporary social and psychological tensions in modern Britain.
 E298779 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: Finbar Veals | Statement: [A Week in December, mainCharacter, Finbar Veals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Finbar Veals
Context triple: [A Week in December, mainCharacter, Finbar Veals]
  • A. Mark O’Connor
    Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
  • B. Kevin Corrigan
    Kevin Corrigan is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often darkly comic supporting roles in numerous independent films and major studio movies.
  • C. Brendan McHale
    Brendan McHale is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current distinction is simply being noted as a bearer of the McHale surname.
  • D. Daniel Neeson
    Daniel Neeson is the son of acclaimed Irish actor Liam Neeson and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
  • E. Andrew Duggan
    Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • 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: Finbar Veals
Triple: [A Week in December, mainCharacter, Finbar Veals]
Generated description
Finbar Veals is a character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "A Week in December," depicted as a young man whose storyline explores contemporary social and psychological tensions in modern Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Finbar Veals
Target entity description: Finbar Veals is a character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "A Week in December," depicted as a young man whose storyline explores contemporary social and psychological tensions in modern Britain.
  • A. Mark O’Connor
    Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
  • B. Kevin Corrigan
    Kevin Corrigan is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often darkly comic supporting roles in numerous independent films and major studio movies.
  • C. Brendan McHale
    Brendan McHale is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current distinction is simply being noted as a bearer of the McHale surname.
  • D. Daniel Neeson
    Daniel Neeson is the son of acclaimed Irish actor Liam Neeson and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
  • E. Andrew Duggan
    Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • 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_69ab4a4bfec081908039988ec4c86e28 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd310b3a48190b275be13eb050e57 completed March 7, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc6316e848190a843f9fd5b152e9f completed March 10, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc6b723f48190b93df0dc2de6c839 completed March 10, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc750fee08190bf3c112f6f204af4 completed March 10, 2026, 7:25 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:48 p.m.