Triple

T818715
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pembroke College, Cambridge E17704 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Clive James
Clive James was an Australian-born critic, broadcaster, poet, and memoirist renowned for his sharp wit, television criticism, and autobiographical works.
E98293 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: Clive James | Statement: [Pembroke College, Cambridge, notableAlumnus, Clive James]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clive James
Context triple: [Pembroke College, Cambridge, notableAlumnus, Clive James]
  • A. Barry Humphries
    Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, actor, and satirist best known for creating and portraying the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage.
  • B. Philip Hensher
    Philip Hensher is a British novelist, critic, and academic known for works such as "The Northern Clemency" and his contributions to contemporary English literature.
  • C. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • D. Humphrey Lyttelton
    Humphrey Lyttelton was a renowned British jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and broadcaster who became one of the leading figures in the post-war UK jazz scene.
  • E. Rupert Holmes
    Rupert Holmes is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, playwright, and author best known for writing and performing the hit song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" and for his work in musical theatre and mystery fiction.
  • 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: Clive James
Triple: [Pembroke College, Cambridge, notableAlumnus, Clive James]
Generated description
Clive James was an Australian-born critic, broadcaster, poet, and memoirist renowned for his sharp wit, television criticism, and autobiographical works.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clive James
Target entity description: Clive James was an Australian-born critic, broadcaster, poet, and memoirist renowned for his sharp wit, television criticism, and autobiographical works.
  • A. Barry Humphries
    Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, actor, and satirist best known for creating and portraying the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage.
  • B. Philip Hensher
    Philip Hensher is a British novelist, critic, and academic known for works such as "The Northern Clemency" and his contributions to contemporary English literature.
  • C. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • D. Humphrey Lyttelton
    Humphrey Lyttelton was a renowned British jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and broadcaster who became one of the leading figures in the post-war UK jazz scene.
  • E. Rupert Holmes
    Rupert Holmes is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, playwright, and author best known for writing and performing the hit song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" and for his work in musical theatre and mystery fiction.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab656418819091ecb09e7ede2825 completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d8f639081909690d1ef4c98680e completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a781f5536c81908175d58b6b75adba completed March 4, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7860e656c8190a08a9999662ba1f1 completed March 4, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.