Triple

T499296
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Railway Man E10363 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Eric Lomax
Eric Lomax was a British Army officer and former prisoner of war whose harrowing experiences of torture on the Burma–Thailand railway and later quest for reconciliation were recounted in his memoir "The Railway Man."
 E174763 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: Eric Lomax | Statement: [The Railway Man, mainCharacter, Eric Lomax]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eric Lomax
Context triple: [The Railway Man, mainCharacter, Eric Lomax]
  • A. Anthony Poggo
    Anthony Poggo is an Anglican bishop and church leader who serves as the Secretary General of the worldwide Anglican Communion’s Anglican Consultative Council.
  • B. Ed Macauley
    Ed Macauley was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and early NBA star known for his scoring, versatility, and success with teams like the Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks.
  • C. Colin Goudie
    Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
  • D. John Brett
    John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
  • E. Tim Bevan
    Tim Bevan is a British film producer and co-founder of Working Title Films, known for overseeing numerous acclaimed UK and international movies.
  • 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: Eric Lomax
Triple: [The Railway Man, mainCharacter, Eric Lomax]
Generated description
Eric Lomax was a British Army officer and former prisoner of war whose harrowing experiences of torture on the Burma–Thailand railway and later quest for reconciliation were recounted in his memoir "The Railway Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eric Lomax
Target entity description: Eric Lomax was a British Army officer and former prisoner of war whose harrowing experiences of torture on the Burma–Thailand railway and later quest for reconciliation were recounted in his memoir "The Railway Man."
  • A. Anthony Poggo
    Anthony Poggo is an Anglican bishop and church leader who serves as the Secretary General of the worldwide Anglican Communion’s Anglican Consultative Council.
  • B. Ed Macauley
    Ed Macauley was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and early NBA star known for his scoring, versatility, and success with teams like the Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks.
  • C. Colin Goudie
    Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
  • D. John Brett
    John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
  • E. Tim Bevan
    Tim Bevan is a British film producer and co-founder of Working Title Films, known for overseeing numerous acclaimed UK and international movies.
  • 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_69a2e847df8481909239ec08ccf1e376 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f119b14c8190a5a6b119579c2682 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad292fbfe88190816bc5d4f0e56e9f completed March 8, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad29b9ffa88190a047b213cbfd4c84 completed March 8, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a2d6b7c819083042c3a36fb55e4 completed March 8, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.