Triple

T18206093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dornford Yates E435907 entity
Predicate realName P9233 FINISHED
Object Cecil William Mercer
Cecil William Mercer was a British author best known for his popular adventure and humorous novels written under the pen name Dornford Yates.
 E1311937 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: Cecil William Mercer | Statement: [Dornford Yates, realName, Cecil William Mercer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cecil William Mercer
Context triple: [Dornford Yates, realName, Cecil William Mercer]
  • A. Cecil Healy
    Cecil Healy was an Australian freestyle swimmer best known for winning a gold and silver medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and for his notable sportsmanship in insisting a delayed rival be allowed to compete.
  • B. Cecil Mountford
    Cecil Mountford was a renowned New Zealand rugby league player and coach, best known for his successful career with Wigan and his influential role in the sport during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Cecil Allan
    Cecil Allan is an actor known for appearing in the British science-fiction film "Spaceways."
  • D. Cecil Armitage
    Cecil Armitage was a British colonial administrator known for his service in West Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Cecil Newton
    Cecil Newton is a former American football center best known as the older brother of NFL quarterback Cam Newton.
  • 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: Cecil William Mercer
Triple: [Dornford Yates, realName, Cecil William Mercer]
Generated description
Cecil William Mercer was a British author best known for his popular adventure and humorous novels written under the pen name Dornford Yates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cecil William Mercer
Target entity description: Cecil William Mercer was a British author best known for his popular adventure and humorous novels written under the pen name Dornford Yates.
  • A. Cecil Healy
    Cecil Healy was an Australian freestyle swimmer best known for winning a gold and silver medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and for his notable sportsmanship in insisting a delayed rival be allowed to compete.
  • B. Cecil Mountford
    Cecil Mountford was a renowned New Zealand rugby league player and coach, best known for his successful career with Wigan and his influential role in the sport during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Cecil Allan
    Cecil Allan is an actor known for appearing in the British science-fiction film "Spaceways."
  • D. Cecil Armitage
    Cecil Armitage was a British colonial administrator known for his service in West Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Cecil Newton
    Cecil Newton is a former American football center best known as the older brother of NFL quarterback Cam Newton.
  • 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_69d8b90dba6481908e119eb9aa4ca0cb completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4e2234b988190bbe2c2164d61f65f completed April 19, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a039f10036c8190a1537632a19f0e23 completed May 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a039febd13881908423ee008d3ba1c3 completed May 12, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03a088b4a0819093720af0308060ee completed May 12, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:32 a.m.