Triple

T18524242
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Simon Russell Beale E452671 entity
Predicate notableRole P22 FINISHED
Object Ferdinand Lyle in "Penny Dreadful"
Ferdinand Lyle is a charming, erudite Victorian Egyptologist and linguist in the horror drama series "Penny Dreadful," who aids the protagonists with his occult and scholarly expertise.
E1329327 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: Ferdinand Lyle in "Penny Dreadful" | Statement: [Simon Russell Beale, notableRole, Ferdinand Lyle in "Penny Dreadful"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand Lyle in "Penny Dreadful"
Context triple: [Simon Russell Beale, notableRole, Ferdinand Lyle in "Penny Dreadful"]
  • A. Lyle Talbot
    Lyle Talbot was an American actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, including roles in both major studio productions and low-budget cult classics.
  • B. Dr. Walter Fane
    Dr. Walter Fane is a reserved, idealistic British physician whose troubled marriage and moral awakening unfold against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in W. Somerset Maugham’s story "The Painted Veil."
  • C. Victor Prynne
    Victor Prynne is a conventional, somewhat stuffy English gentleman who serves as the new husband of Amanda and comic foil to the more volatile central couple in Noël Coward’s play "Private Lives."
  • D. Dominic Rathbone
    Dominic Rathbone is a historian and papyrologist specializing in the social and economic history of the Graeco-Roman world, particularly Roman Egypt.
  • E. Count Fosco in The Woman in White
    Count Fosco in *The Woman in White* is the charismatic, corpulent, and sinister Italian villain whose cunning manipulation drives much of the novel’s mystery and intrigue.
  • 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: Ferdinand Lyle in "Penny Dreadful"
Triple: [Simon Russell Beale, notableRole, Ferdinand Lyle in "Penny Dreadful"]
Generated description
Ferdinand Lyle is a charming, erudite Victorian Egyptologist and linguist in the horror drama series "Penny Dreadful," who aids the protagonists with his occult and scholarly expertise.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand Lyle in "Penny Dreadful"
Target entity description: Ferdinand Lyle is a charming, erudite Victorian Egyptologist and linguist in the horror drama series "Penny Dreadful," who aids the protagonists with his occult and scholarly expertise.
  • A. Lyle Talbot
    Lyle Talbot was an American actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, including roles in both major studio productions and low-budget cult classics.
  • B. Dr. Walter Fane
    Dr. Walter Fane is a reserved, idealistic British physician whose troubled marriage and moral awakening unfold against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic in W. Somerset Maugham’s story "The Painted Veil."
  • C. Victor Prynne
    Victor Prynne is a conventional, somewhat stuffy English gentleman who serves as the new husband of Amanda and comic foil to the more volatile central couple in Noël Coward’s play "Private Lives."
  • D. Dominic Rathbone
    Dominic Rathbone is a historian and papyrologist specializing in the social and economic history of the Graeco-Roman world, particularly Roman Egypt.
  • E. Count Fosco in The Woman in White
    Count Fosco in *The Woman in White* is the charismatic, corpulent, and sinister Italian villain whose cunning manipulation drives much of the novel’s mystery and intrigue.
  • 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_69d8d387b5548190aa030dad2cb4947e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e533908b0c81908725baf828aa46ff completed April 19, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0491746a548190a6922b40db6fde47 completed May 13, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a04922aa908819093d00f57fdb00627 completed May 13, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04933727488190b7a04789a17a16a0 completed May 13, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:37 a.m.