Triple

T6314111
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alec Guinness E141572 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Colonel Nicholson
Colonel Nicholson is the rigid, duty-bound British officer at the center of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," whose obsession with military discipline leads to morally ambiguous collaboration with his captors.
E583852 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: Colonel Nicholson | Statement: [Alec Guinness, portrayed, Colonel Nicholson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Nicholson
Context triple: [Alec Guinness, portrayed, Colonel Nicholson]
  • A. Colonel Howard
    Colonel Howard is a fictional military officer character featured in the film "The Pilot."
  • B. Colonel Smith
    Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
  • C. Colonel McCormick
    Colonel McCormick was a powerful American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his conservative political influence in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Colonel James Barrett
    Colonel James Barrett was a colonial militia leader whose farm in Concord, Massachusetts played a pivotal role in the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. Colonel Noel Wild
    Colonel Noel Wild was a British Army officer who played a key leadership role in the Allied deception efforts surrounding Operation Bodyguard during World War II.
  • 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: Colonel Nicholson
Triple: [Alec Guinness, portrayed, Colonel Nicholson]
Generated description
Colonel Nicholson is the rigid, duty-bound British officer at the center of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," whose obsession with military discipline leads to morally ambiguous collaboration with his captors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Nicholson
Target entity description: Colonel Nicholson is the rigid, duty-bound British officer at the center of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," whose obsession with military discipline leads to morally ambiguous collaboration with his captors.
  • A. Colonel Howard
    Colonel Howard is a fictional military officer character featured in the film "The Pilot."
  • B. Colonel Smith
    Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
  • C. Colonel McCormick
    Colonel McCormick was a powerful American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his conservative political influence in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Colonel James Barrett
    Colonel James Barrett was a colonial militia leader whose farm in Concord, Massachusetts played a pivotal role in the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. Colonel Noel Wild
    Colonel Noel Wild was a British Army officer who played a key leadership role in the Allied deception efforts surrounding Operation Bodyguard during World War II.
  • 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_69c008d00efc8190a36c05b4b4a3bf4b completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c064a075dc8190acf7ec010cb4b00c completed March 22, 2026, 9:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c5e46feeec8190bdb39a48c92bacf1 completed March 27, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c5ee04b2388190b36dc9bb23b4a18a completed March 27, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c5ee780bb08190a97c90804f9c6b68 completed March 27, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:28 p.m.