Triple

T17247433
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sense of an Ending E418663 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Tony Webster
Tony Webster is the introspective, middle-aged narrator of Julian Barnes's novel "The Sense of an Ending," whose recollections and misremembered past drive the story’s exploration of memory and regret.
E1276815 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: Tony Webster | Statement: [The Sense of an Ending, mainCharacter, Tony Webster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Webster
Context triple: [The Sense of an Ending, mainCharacter, Tony Webster]
  • A. Anthony Wills
    Anthony Wills is a whisky industry figure best known as the founder of Kilchoman, one of Islay’s newer farm-based Scotch whisky distilleries.
  • B. Tony Weller
    Tony Weller is a humorous, plain-spoken London coachman and the father of Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's novel "The Pickwick Papers."
  • C. Frank Wead
    Frank Wead was an American naval aviator-turned-screenwriter known for his aviation-themed stories and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • D. Tony Cottrell
    Tony Cottrell, better known by his stage name Hi-Tek, is an American hip hop producer and DJ recognized for his soulful, sample-based beats and collaborations with artists like Talib Kweli and Mos Def.
  • E. Hal Barwood
    Hal Barwood is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and video game designer best known for his work on films like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and for creating story-driven adventure games at LucasArts.
  • 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: Tony Webster
Triple: [The Sense of an Ending, mainCharacter, Tony Webster]
Generated description
Tony Webster is the introspective, middle-aged narrator of Julian Barnes's novel "The Sense of an Ending," whose recollections and misremembered past drive the story’s exploration of memory and regret.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Webster
Target entity description: Tony Webster is the introspective, middle-aged narrator of Julian Barnes's novel "The Sense of an Ending," whose recollections and misremembered past drive the story’s exploration of memory and regret.
  • A. Anthony Wills
    Anthony Wills is a whisky industry figure best known as the founder of Kilchoman, one of Islay’s newer farm-based Scotch whisky distilleries.
  • B. Tony Weller
    Tony Weller is a humorous, plain-spoken London coachman and the father of Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's novel "The Pickwick Papers."
  • C. Frank Wead
    Frank Wead was an American naval aviator-turned-screenwriter known for his aviation-themed stories and contributions to classic Hollywood films.
  • D. Tony Cottrell
    Tony Cottrell, better known by his stage name Hi-Tek, is an American hip hop producer and DJ recognized for his soulful, sample-based beats and collaborations with artists like Talib Kweli and Mos Def.
  • E. Hal Barwood
    Hal Barwood is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and video game designer best known for his work on films like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and for creating story-driven adventure games at LucasArts.
  • 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_69d886d9ab108190b70edd8d17aa1204 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42e24a4508190bbcc70c36b2b9c13 completed April 19, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01ddd1fc008190b12be8c71a6127df completed May 11, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01dfcb18cc8190bec7a36e886b5a4c completed May 11, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01e02a5d9481909cd957c14a4eff3b completed May 11, 2026, 1:56 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:39 a.m.