Triple

T3456592
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Spy Who Came in from the Cold E72918 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hans-Dieter Mundt
Hans-Dieter Mundt is a high-ranking East German intelligence officer in John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
 E362903 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: Hans-Dieter Mundt | Statement: [The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, mainCharacter, Hans-Dieter Mundt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hans-Dieter Mundt
Context triple: [The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, mainCharacter, Hans-Dieter Mundt]
  • A. Robert T. Beyer
    Robert T. Beyer was an American physicist and translator known for bringing important scientific works, including foundational texts on quantum mechanics, to an English-speaking audience.
  • B. Thomas F. Hofmann
    Thomas F. Hofmann is a German food chemist and academic leader who serves as president of the Technical University of Munich.
  • C. Hans Frisak
    Hans Frisak was a mountaineer known for being among the first to successfully climb Iceland’s highest peak, Hvannadalshnúkur.
  • D. Michael Kohl
    Michael Kohl was an East German diplomat and politician who played a key role in negotiating the 1972 Basic Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
  • E. John F. Hartwig
    John F. Hartwig is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in organometallic chemistry and catalytic reactions, particularly in C–H activation and cross-coupling.
  • 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: Hans-Dieter Mundt
Triple: [The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, mainCharacter, Hans-Dieter Mundt]
Generated description
Hans-Dieter Mundt is a high-ranking East German intelligence officer in John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hans-Dieter Mundt
Target entity description: Hans-Dieter Mundt is a high-ranking East German intelligence officer in John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
  • A. Robert T. Beyer
    Robert T. Beyer was an American physicist and translator known for bringing important scientific works, including foundational texts on quantum mechanics, to an English-speaking audience.
  • B. Thomas F. Hofmann
    Thomas F. Hofmann is a German food chemist and academic leader who serves as president of the Technical University of Munich.
  • C. Hans Frisak
    Hans Frisak was a mountaineer known for being among the first to successfully climb Iceland’s highest peak, Hvannadalshnúkur.
  • D. Michael Kohl
    Michael Kohl was an East German diplomat and politician who played a key role in negotiating the 1972 Basic Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
  • E. John F. Hartwig
    John F. Hartwig is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in organometallic chemistry and catalytic reactions, particularly in C–H activation and cross-coupling.
  • 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_69ad85b12a908190a1d10a6b03b4f8ae completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbaa9837c8190aafd618c6af3446e completed March 8, 2026, 6:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373a7da208190a8a9ad5ede8d4f0f completed March 13, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b374a7a4fc81909cb7e36502132d12 completed March 13, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3755597d8819081375fab35b75369 completed March 13, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:16 p.m.