Triple

T12115896
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Old Devils E288560 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Alun Weaver
Alun Weaver is the aging, hard-drinking former TV personality at the center of Kingsley Amis’s novel "The Old Devils," whose return to Wales disrupts and rekindles old friendships and rivalries.
 E985736 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: Alun Weaver | Statement: [The Old Devils, mainCharacter, Alun Weaver]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alun Weaver
Context triple: [The Old Devils, mainCharacter, Alun Weaver]
  • A. Alec Troup
    Alec Troup was a Scottish professional footballer known for playing as a winger in the early 20th century.
  • B. Glyn Williams
    Glyn Williams is a British sculptor known for creating prominent public monuments, including the statue of David Lloyd George in Parliament Square, London.
  • C. Gareth Unwin
    Gareth Unwin is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the historical drama "The King’s Speech."
  • D. Alastair Redfern
    Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
  • E. Glyn Simon
    Glyn Simon was a Welsh Anglican bishop who served as Archbishop of Wales in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Alun Weaver
Triple: [The Old Devils, mainCharacter, Alun Weaver]
Generated description
Alun Weaver is the aging, hard-drinking former TV personality at the center of Kingsley Amis’s novel "The Old Devils," whose return to Wales disrupts and rekindles old friendships and rivalries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alun Weaver
Target entity description: Alun Weaver is the aging, hard-drinking former TV personality at the center of Kingsley Amis’s novel "The Old Devils," whose return to Wales disrupts and rekindles old friendships and rivalries.
  • A. Alec Troup
    Alec Troup was a Scottish professional footballer known for playing as a winger in the early 20th century.
  • B. Glyn Williams
    Glyn Williams is a British sculptor known for creating prominent public monuments, including the statue of David Lloyd George in Parliament Square, London.
  • C. Gareth Unwin
    Gareth Unwin is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the historical drama "The King’s Speech."
  • D. Alastair Redfern
    Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
  • E. Glyn Simon
    Glyn Simon was a Welsh Anglican bishop who served as Archbishop of Wales in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d6ab4a5c448190a110d1273314b21a completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9156921dc8190aa132b0ab3a7c184 completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f64b83c15081908d2ed4c6d2e7534b completed May 2, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64c276d388190b58fe884466076ee completed May 2, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64ce7b444819094d94bec749d7618 completed May 2, 2026, 7:13 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.