Triple

T8738301
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Gardner (British writer) E207438 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Secret Families
The Secret Families is a Cold War-era espionage novel by British author John Gardner that continues his series exploring the intricate dynamics of a powerful intelligence-linked family across generations.
E754776 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: The Secret Families | Statement: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The Secret Families]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Secret Families
Context triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The Secret Families]
  • A. Sacred Families
    Sacred Families is a novel by Chilean writer José Donoso that explores the darkly comic dysfunctions and hypocrisies of an upper-middle-class family.
  • B. The Hidden Family
    The Hidden Family is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that blends parallel-universe intrigue, economic speculation, and political maneuvering as its heroine exploits travel between alternate Earths.
  • C. The House of Hidden Secrets
    The House of Hidden Secrets is a psychological suspense novel by British author Caroline England that explores buried family tensions, long-held secrets, and the dark undercurrents of seemingly ordinary lives.
  • D. House of the Blackheads
    The House of the Blackheads is a richly ornamented historic guild building in Riga, Latvia, renowned for its striking Renaissance-style façade and role as a symbol of the city’s medieval mercantile past.
  • E. The House of Hidden Mothers
    The House of Hidden Mothers is a contemporary novel by Meera Syal that explores motherhood, surrogacy, and cultural identity through the intertwined lives of British-Indian characters.
  • 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: The Secret Families
Triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The Secret Families]
Generated description
The Secret Families is a Cold War-era espionage novel by British author John Gardner that continues his series exploring the intricate dynamics of a powerful intelligence-linked family across generations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Secret Families
Target entity description: The Secret Families is a Cold War-era espionage novel by British author John Gardner that continues his series exploring the intricate dynamics of a powerful intelligence-linked family across generations.
  • A. Sacred Families
    Sacred Families is a novel by Chilean writer José Donoso that explores the darkly comic dysfunctions and hypocrisies of an upper-middle-class family.
  • B. The Hidden Family
    The Hidden Family is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that blends parallel-universe intrigue, economic speculation, and political maneuvering as its heroine exploits travel between alternate Earths.
  • C. The House of Hidden Secrets
    The House of Hidden Secrets is a psychological suspense novel by British author Caroline England that explores buried family tensions, long-held secrets, and the dark undercurrents of seemingly ordinary lives.
  • D. House of the Blackheads
    The House of the Blackheads is a richly ornamented historic guild building in Riga, Latvia, renowned for its striking Renaissance-style façade and role as a symbol of the city’s medieval mercantile past.
  • E. The House of Hidden Mothers
    The House of Hidden Mothers is a contemporary novel by Meera Syal that explores motherhood, surrogacy, and cultural identity through the intertwined lives of British-Indian characters.
  • 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_69ca835a03a081909d4d4cd01a18c9fb completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5d470c8c81909ead395ef704c6ba completed March 31, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf42d5dd508190854fbbc2541aa819 completed April 3, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf440051bc8190ad9d649150187932 completed April 3, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf4473ee0081908ed22eb0d855d7dd completed April 3, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:38 p.m.