Triple

T6634964
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scoop E150424 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object William Boot
William Boot is the bumbling, nature-obsessed journalist protagonist of Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," sent abroad as an unlikely foreign correspondent.
E598951 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: William Boot | Statement: [Scoop, mainCharacter, William Boot]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Boot
Context triple: [Scoop, mainCharacter, William Boot]
  • A. Sergeant-Major Hewson
    Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
  • B. Thomas Sharpe
    Thomas Sharpe is a mysterious English baronet whose dark secrets and tragic romance with the heroine drive the gothic horror narrative of the film "Crimson Peak."
  • C. Sergeant J.J. Sefton
    Sergeant J.J. Sefton is the cynical, resourceful American POW protagonist of the film "Stalag 17," known for his self-serving schemes and eventual heroism inside a German prison camp during World War II.
  • D. Sergeant Gerry Boyle
    Sergeant Gerry Boyle is the cynical, sharp-witted small-town Irish police sergeant at the center of the dark comedy crime film "The Guard."
  • E. British General Ronald Scobie
    British General Ronald Scobie was a senior British Army officer best known for commanding Allied and British forces in Greece during World War II, particularly in the turbulent period of the Greek Civil War.
  • 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: William Boot
Triple: [Scoop, mainCharacter, William Boot]
Generated description
William Boot is the bumbling, nature-obsessed journalist protagonist of Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," sent abroad as an unlikely foreign correspondent.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Boot
Target entity description: William Boot is the bumbling, nature-obsessed journalist protagonist of Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," sent abroad as an unlikely foreign correspondent.
  • A. Sergeant-Major Hewson
    Sergeant-Major Hewson was a British military non-commissioned officer noted for his prominent role in the events surrounding the Barrackpore incident of 1857 during the lead-up to the Indian Rebellion.
  • B. Thomas Sharpe
    Thomas Sharpe is a mysterious English baronet whose dark secrets and tragic romance with the heroine drive the gothic horror narrative of the film "Crimson Peak."
  • C. Sergeant J.J. Sefton
    Sergeant J.J. Sefton is the cynical, resourceful American POW protagonist of the film "Stalag 17," known for his self-serving schemes and eventual heroism inside a German prison camp during World War II.
  • D. Sergeant Gerry Boyle
    Sergeant Gerry Boyle is the cynical, sharp-witted small-town Irish police sergeant at the center of the dark comedy crime film "The Guard."
  • E. British General Ronald Scobie
    British General Ronald Scobie was a senior British Army officer best known for commanding Allied and British forces in Greece during World War II, particularly in the turbulent period of the Greek Civil War.
  • 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_69c687f0ceb08190bf40807bfc605fa5 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6afcc1c9c819087fcde19a5d49fd2 completed March 27, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cbf71874819080cc89b6740b1567 completed March 27, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd0bb0e48190ae51fde4b4631f65 completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cd90b9208190b4c5bf44db073314 completed March 27, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:59 p.m.