Triple

T5711561
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Dance to the Music of Time E125921 entity
Predicate narrator P2181 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Jenkins
Nicholas Jenkins is the reflective, observant protagonist and first-person chronicler of Anthony Powell’s multi-volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time."
E544162 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: Nicholas Jenkins | Statement: [A Dance to the Music of Time, narrator, Nicholas Jenkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Jenkins
Context triple: [A Dance to the Music of Time, narrator, Nicholas Jenkins]
  • A. Nicholas Hunt
    Nicholas Hunt is a British figure best known as the father of UK Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
  • B. Nicholas Hughes
    Nicholas Hughes was the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, who became a respected fisheries biologist before his tragic death in 2009.
  • C. Nicholas Johnston
    Nicholas Johnston is a friend of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after whom Johnson’s son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson was partly named.
  • D. Nicholas Lucas
    Nicholas Lucas was an early colonial leader known for helping establish the West Jersey settlement in what is now New Jersey.
  • E. Chris Jasper
    Chris Jasper is an American R&B and funk keyboardist, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential work with the Isley Brothers and the splinter group Isley-Jasper-Isley.
  • 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: Nicholas Jenkins
Triple: [A Dance to the Music of Time, narrator, Nicholas Jenkins]
Generated description
Nicholas Jenkins is the reflective, observant protagonist and first-person chronicler of Anthony Powell’s multi-volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Jenkins
Target entity description: Nicholas Jenkins is the reflective, observant protagonist and first-person chronicler of Anthony Powell’s multi-volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time."
  • A. Nicholas Hunt
    Nicholas Hunt is a British figure best known as the father of UK Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
  • B. Nicholas Hughes
    Nicholas Hughes was the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, who became a respected fisheries biologist before his tragic death in 2009.
  • C. Nicholas Johnston
    Nicholas Johnston is a friend of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after whom Johnson’s son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson was partly named.
  • D. Nicholas Lucas
    Nicholas Lucas was an early colonial leader known for helping establish the West Jersey settlement in what is now New Jersey.
  • E. Chris Jasper
    Chris Jasper is an American R&B and funk keyboardist, songwriter, and producer best known for his influential work with the Isley Brothers and the splinter group Isley-Jasper-Isley.
  • 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_69c0082d6fe48190b777fb383769e5c8 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c024b386a08190bd2738d93861edc2 completed March 22, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07dedffd481909fafd916190b016f completed March 22, 2026, 11:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c08cf206188190a4e5bb2649d97be9 completed March 23, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c08dc4d12c8190a7a245d583ef08d4 completed March 23, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.