Triple

T9399345
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Allen Leech E226426 entity
Predicate characterPortrayed P1507 FINISHED
Object John Cairncross
John Cairncross was a British civil servant and scholar best known as one of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies who passed classified information to the USSR during and after World War II.
E797171 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: John Cairncross | Statement: [Allen Leech, characterPortrayed, John Cairncross]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Cairncross
Context triple: [Allen Leech, characterPortrayed, John Cairncross]
  • A. Richard Crossman
    Richard Crossman was a prominent British Labour politician, diarist, and intellectual who served as a cabinet minister in the 1960s and became well known for his posthumously published political diaries.
  • B. Alan Cowan
    Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • C. Clarence Odbody
    Clarence Odbody is the bumbling yet wise guardian angel in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," sent to help George Bailey understand the value of his life.
  • D. William Kneale
    William Kneale was a British philosopher and logician best known for his influential work on the history and philosophy of logic, particularly as co-author of "The Development of Logic."
  • E. Walter Warlimont
    Walter Warlimont was a German Wehrmacht general who served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff of the OKW during World War II and was later convicted as a war criminal at the High Command Trial.
  • 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: John Cairncross
Triple: [Allen Leech, characterPortrayed, John Cairncross]
Generated description
John Cairncross was a British civil servant and scholar best known as one of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies who passed classified information to the USSR during and after World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Cairncross
Target entity description: John Cairncross was a British civil servant and scholar best known as one of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies who passed classified information to the USSR during and after World War II.
  • A. Richard Crossman
    Richard Crossman was a prominent British Labour politician, diarist, and intellectual who served as a cabinet minister in the 1960s and became well known for his posthumously published political diaries.
  • B. Alan Cowan
    Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • C. Clarence Odbody
    Clarence Odbody is the bumbling yet wise guardian angel in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," sent to help George Bailey understand the value of his life.
  • D. William Kneale
    William Kneale was a British philosopher and logician best known for his influential work on the history and philosophy of logic, particularly as co-author of "The Development of Logic."
  • E. Walter Warlimont
    Walter Warlimont was a German Wehrmacht general who served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff of the OKW during World War II and was later convicted as a war criminal at the High Command Trial.
  • 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_69ca843170f88190800a8ab2b5fc568e completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd51556fc08190b8ff8190a1485a3a completed April 1, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1079798048190a1bd5318df4b1649 completed April 4, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1082f41b48190b8588bb986028f59 completed April 4, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d108bab8c881909748ffbb4b23f4ba completed April 4, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:46 p.m.