Triple

T14483878
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nelson Gidding E359176 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation)
The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation) is a 1960s American TV series dramatizing World War II espionage operations, inspired by the real-life Operation Mincemeat deception plot.
E1101027 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 Man Who Never Was (television adaptation) | Statement: [Nelson Gidding, notableWork, The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation)
Context triple: [Nelson Gidding, notableWork, The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation)]
  • A. Foreign Correspondent
    Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 Alfred Hitchcock-directed spy thriller film set in Europe on the eve of World War II, known for its suspenseful set pieces and wartime propaganda themes.
  • B. Robin Redbreast (BBC television play)
    Robin Redbreast is a 1970 BBC television play, written by John Bowen, that blends psychological drama with folk horror elements in a rural English setting.
  • C. The History Man
    The History Man is a satirical campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury that critiques 1970s British academia and radical politics through the story of an opportunistic sociology professor.
  • D. The Man Who Knew Too Little
    The Man Who Knew Too Little is a 1997 comedy film starring Bill Murray as an unsuspecting tourist who is mistaken for a spy during an interactive theater experience gone wrong.
  • E. In Which We Serve
    In Which We Serve is a 1942 British war film co-directed by and starring Noël Coward that portrays the crew of a Royal Navy destroyer during World War II.
  • 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 Man Who Never Was (television adaptation)
Triple: [Nelson Gidding, notableWork, The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation)]
Generated description
The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation) is a 1960s American TV series dramatizing World War II espionage operations, inspired by the real-life Operation Mincemeat deception plot.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation)
Target entity description: The Man Who Never Was (television adaptation) is a 1960s American TV series dramatizing World War II espionage operations, inspired by the real-life Operation Mincemeat deception plot.
  • A. Foreign Correspondent
    Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 Alfred Hitchcock-directed spy thriller film set in Europe on the eve of World War II, known for its suspenseful set pieces and wartime propaganda themes.
  • B. Robin Redbreast (BBC television play)
    Robin Redbreast is a 1970 BBC television play, written by John Bowen, that blends psychological drama with folk horror elements in a rural English setting.
  • C. The History Man
    The History Man is a satirical campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury that critiques 1970s British academia and radical politics through the story of an opportunistic sociology professor.
  • D. The Man Who Knew Too Little
    The Man Who Knew Too Little is a 1997 comedy film starring Bill Murray as an unsuspecting tourist who is mistaken for a spy during an interactive theater experience gone wrong.
  • E. In Which We Serve
    In Which We Serve is a 1942 British war film co-directed by and starring Noël Coward that portrays the crew of a Royal Navy destroyer during World War II.
  • 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_69d8279740308190af9df93a3af8592e completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de924d7f4c8190b1f62b5ffe1ff649 completed April 14, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd64a73cf48190811d6de182e891c4 completed May 8, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd66d3f2448190b8926c479ce95e83 completed May 8, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd67b5cd2c8190871d22ebdc64dd11 completed May 8, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:20 a.m.