Triple

T711046
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Cleese E14206 entity
Predicate portrayedCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Basil Fawlty
Basil Fawlty is the snobbish, short-tempered hotel owner and central comedic character from the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
 E84545 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: Basil Fawlty | Statement: [John Cleese, portrayedCharacter, Basil Fawlty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Basil Fawlty
Context triple: [John Cleese, portrayedCharacter, Basil Fawlty]
  • A. Uncle Fred
    Uncle Fred is a mischievous, quick-witted aristocrat and recurring comic hero in P. G. Wodehouse’s humorous stories.
  • B. Felton
    Felton is the middle name of legendary American basketball player and civil rights activist William Felton Russell.
  • C. Cyril Proudbottom
    Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
  • D. Lord Emsworth
    Lord Emsworth is a dreamy, absent-minded English earl and master of Blandings Castle in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories, best known for his love of pigs and aversion to responsibility.
  • E. Sir George Treby
    Sir George Treby was a British politician and public official who rose to prominence in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notably serving in senior governmental and naval administrative roles.
  • 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: Basil Fawlty
Triple: [John Cleese, portrayedCharacter, Basil Fawlty]
Generated description
Basil Fawlty is the snobbish, short-tempered hotel owner and central comedic character from the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Basil Fawlty
Target entity description: Basil Fawlty is the snobbish, short-tempered hotel owner and central comedic character from the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers."
  • A. Uncle Fred
    Uncle Fred is a mischievous, quick-witted aristocrat and recurring comic hero in P. G. Wodehouse’s humorous stories.
  • B. Felton
    Felton is the middle name of legendary American basketball player and civil rights activist William Felton Russell.
  • C. Cyril Proudbottom
    Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
  • D. Lord Emsworth
    Lord Emsworth is a dreamy, absent-minded English earl and master of Blandings Castle in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories, best known for his love of pigs and aversion to responsibility.
  • E. Sir George Treby
    Sir George Treby was a British politician and public official who rose to prominence in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notably serving in senior governmental and naval administrative roles.
  • 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_69a4934a36e081909e7abef98b898a4e completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a55c99fc8190941c5fd18551792a completed March 1, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dcb3452c8190a150b4a182807813 completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5dfca43a08190b3e8a13284163822 completed March 2, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5ff271e288190a9932832609c3c3d completed March 2, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.