Triple

T4990975
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Barchester Chronicles (BBC television serial) E112127 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Alan Plater
Alan Plater was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his prolific work in television, radio, and theatre, often celebrated for his witty, character-driven dramas.
E501337 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: Alan Plater | Statement: [The Barchester Chronicles (BBC television serial), screenwriter, Alan Plater]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Plater
Context triple: [The Barchester Chronicles (BBC television serial), screenwriter, Alan Plater]
  • A. David Pegg
    David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
  • B. Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
  • C. Andrew Rennison
    Andrew Rennison is a British public official known for serving as the inaugural Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of CCTV and related surveillance technologies in the UK.
  • D. Chris Spedding
    Chris Spedding is an English session guitarist and producer known for his versatile work across rock, pop, and jazz, collaborating with numerous prominent artists since the 1960s.
  • E. Jon Plowman
    Jon Plowman is a British television producer best known for his influential work on BBC comedies, including series such as Absolutely Fabulous and The Office.
  • 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: Alan Plater
Triple: [The Barchester Chronicles (BBC television serial), screenwriter, Alan Plater]
Generated description
Alan Plater was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his prolific work in television, radio, and theatre, often celebrated for his witty, character-driven dramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Plater
Target entity description: Alan Plater was a British playwright and screenwriter known for his prolific work in television, radio, and theatre, often celebrated for his witty, character-driven dramas.
  • A. David Pegg
    David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
  • B. Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
  • C. Andrew Rennison
    Andrew Rennison is a British public official known for serving as the inaugural Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of CCTV and related surveillance technologies in the UK.
  • D. Chris Spedding
    Chris Spedding is an English session guitarist and producer known for his versatile work across rock, pop, and jazz, collaborating with numerous prominent artists since the 1960s.
  • E. Jon Plowman
    Jon Plowman is a British television producer best known for his influential work on BBC comedies, including series such as Absolutely Fabulous and The Office.
  • 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_69bd441be7bc8190b530362d427b97d2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd728141d48190a0713e6d33c50fb6 completed March 20, 2026, 4:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bee061444081909ba050ea2a5e3f48 completed March 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bee64548f08190b96ce4ae91cae3d0 completed March 21, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bee6960b9881909e1b79c85a188ac3 completed March 21, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:34 p.m.