Triple

T4389599
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Strand Magazine E99328 entity
Predicate hasContributor P4244 FINISHED
Object Dornford Yates
Dornford Yates was the pen name of British author Cecil William Mercer, best known for his popular early 20th-century adventure and humorous novels and short stories.
E435907 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: Dornford Yates | Statement: [The Strand Magazine, hasContributor, Dornford Yates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dornford Yates
Context triple: [The Strand Magazine, hasContributor, Dornford Yates]
  • A. Victor Canning
    Victor Canning was a British novelist and thriller writer known for his suspenseful crime and adventure stories, several of which were adapted for film and television.
  • B. Richard Llewellyn
    Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
  • C. Robert Fairthorne
    Robert Fairthorne was a British information scientist and mathematician known for his influential work in documentation, information retrieval theory, and the early development of information science as a discipline.
  • D. Patrick Hamilton
    Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
  • E. L. P. Hartley
    L. P. Hartley was a British novelist best known for his 1953 novel "The Go-Between," a classic exploration of memory, class, and lost innocence.
  • 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: Dornford Yates
Triple: [The Strand Magazine, hasContributor, Dornford Yates]
Generated description
Dornford Yates was the pen name of British author Cecil William Mercer, best known for his popular early 20th-century adventure and humorous novels and short stories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dornford Yates
Target entity description: Dornford Yates was the pen name of British author Cecil William Mercer, best known for his popular early 20th-century adventure and humorous novels and short stories.
  • A. Victor Canning
    Victor Canning was a British novelist and thriller writer known for his suspenseful crime and adventure stories, several of which were adapted for film and television.
  • B. Richard Llewellyn
    Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
  • C. Robert Fairthorne
    Robert Fairthorne was a British information scientist and mathematician known for his influential work in documentation, information retrieval theory, and the early development of information science as a discipline.
  • D. Patrick Hamilton
    Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
  • E. L. P. Hartley
    L. P. Hartley was a British novelist best known for his 1953 novel "The Go-Between," a classic exploration of memory, class, and lost innocence.
  • 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_69b3454f739481909ff6c28331f0c0b9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35282cb2c8190856da20bb87e88ff completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e52d63c08190bc98c090cfe0ff1c completed March 14, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e5b3ba208190b6cb5e40f9e744e8 completed March 14, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e62af694819086b3eddb71f591d2 completed March 14, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.