Triple

T3066827
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Book Thief E62121 entity
Predicate filmAdaptationDirector P255 FINISHED
Object Brian Percival
Brian Percival is a British film and television director best known for his work on the historical drama series "Downton Abbey" and various acclaimed period pieces.
E370063 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: Brian Percival | Statement: [The Book Thief, filmAdaptationDirector, Brian Percival]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Percival
Context triple: [The Book Thief, filmAdaptationDirector, Brian Percival]
  • A. Daniel Percival
    Daniel Percival is a British television director and producer known for his work on high-profile drama series, including serving as an executive producer on "The Man in the High Castle."
  • B. Brian Pippard
    Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
  • C. Geoffrey Haslam
    Geoffrey Haslam is a record producer best known for his work on Bette Midler’s debut album "The Divine Miss M."
  • D. Richard Pearce
    Richard Pearce is a voice actor known for his work in animated films, including providing a character voice in Pixar's "A Bug's Life."
  • E. Ian Woodward
    Ian Woodward is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as academia, business, and the arts.
  • 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: Brian Percival
Triple: [The Book Thief, filmAdaptationDirector, Brian Percival]
Generated description
Brian Percival is a British film and television director best known for his work on the historical drama series "Downton Abbey" and various acclaimed period pieces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Percival
Target entity description: Brian Percival is a British film and television director best known for his work on the historical drama series "Downton Abbey" and various acclaimed period pieces.
  • A. Daniel Percival
    Daniel Percival is a British television director and producer known for his work on high-profile drama series, including serving as an executive producer on "The Man in the High Castle."
  • B. Brian Pippard
    Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
  • C. Geoffrey Haslam
    Geoffrey Haslam is a record producer best known for his work on Bette Midler’s debut album "The Divine Miss M."
  • D. Richard Pearce
    Richard Pearce is a voice actor known for his work in animated films, including providing a character voice in Pixar's "A Bug's Life."
  • E. Ian Woodward
    Ian Woodward is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as academia, business, and the arts.
  • 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_69ad85793e5c8190a358049bc4a98d8c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada0fd87308190918e7b616f033faa completed March 8, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3bb66b1248190917a7c3c146ec727 completed March 13, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3bc93f93c8190a23301340b08d76b completed March 13, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3f8033cd481909bc0e24fd9d86831 completed March 13, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.