Triple

T19469645
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Comfort of Strangers E487087 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Robert
Robert is a central character in Ian McEwan’s unsettling novel "The Comfort of Strangers," known for his charismatic yet deeply disturbing and controlling nature.
E1377516 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: Robert | Statement: [The Comfort of Strangers, mainCharacter, Robert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert
Context triple: [The Comfort of Strangers, mainCharacter, Robert]
  • A. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Edwards, an English literary critic and poet known for his 18th-century work "The Canons of Criticism."
  • B. Thomas
    Thomas is the formal given name of Tom LaGarde, an American former professional basketball player.
  • C. Thomas
    Thomas is the middle name of the individual Samuel Thomas Wilson.
  • D. Thomas
    Thomas is the given name of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, a prominent 19th-century British peer and landowner.
  • E. Thomas
    Thomas is a character appearing in the animated series "Exit 9B" from the show "Regular Show."
  • 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: Robert
Triple: [The Comfort of Strangers, mainCharacter, Robert]
Generated description
Robert is a central character in Ian McEwan’s unsettling novel "The Comfort of Strangers," known for his charismatic yet deeply disturbing and controlling nature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert
Target entity description: Robert is a central character in Ian McEwan’s unsettling novel "The Comfort of Strangers," known for his charismatic yet deeply disturbing and controlling nature.
  • A. Robert
    Robert is a fictional character known primarily for his role in the story of "Betrayal."
  • B. Robert
    Robert is the central protagonist of the film "Afterschool," around whom the story’s events and themes revolve.
  • C. Robert
    Robert is a central character in the British black comedy film "Death at a Funeral," around whom much of the movie’s chaotic and farcical events unfold.
  • D. Robert
    Robert is the given name of the American singer-songwriter better known by his stage name Bobby Charles, a pioneer of swamp pop and contributor to early rock and roll.
  • E. Robert
    Robert is a common masculine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • 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_69d8e8d86d608190bd199a98d0297f27 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e633e6fd988190b79be580b65746fe completed April 20, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a073b41f34c8190abc737a01bc09973 completed May 15, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a073bd8fd108190b4aa79dcdf3c2758 completed May 15, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a073c574c808190b2ae6df5477c27bb completed May 15, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:39 p.m.