Triple

T19865467
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Val McDermid E477377 entity
Predicate notableSeriesCharacter P137625 FINISHED
Object Karen Pirie
Karen Pirie is a Scottish cold case detective and the central protagonist of Val McDermid’s popular crime novel series.
E1428590 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: Karen Pirie | Statement: [Val McDermid, notableSeriesCharacter, Karen Pirie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karen Pirie
Context triple: [Val McDermid, notableSeriesCharacter, Karen Pirie]
  • A. Eileen Paisley
    Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
  • B. Joanne Catherall
    Joanne Catherall is an English singer best known as one of the longtime vocalists of the pioneering synth-pop band The Human League.
  • C. Aileen Pringle
    Aileen Pringle was an American silent film actress known for her sophisticated screen presence and roles in 1920s Hollywood cinema.
  • D. Mary Peate
    Mary Peate is a British radio drama producer and director known for her work with BBC Radio and for being married to actor Neil Dudgeon.
  • E. Karen Young
    Karen Young is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including a prominent role in the thriller "Jaws: The Revenge."
  • 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: Karen Pirie
Triple: [Val McDermid, notableSeriesCharacter, Karen Pirie]
Generated description
Karen Pirie is a Scottish cold case detective and the central protagonist of Val McDermid’s popular crime novel series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karen Pirie
Target entity description: Karen Pirie is a Scottish cold case detective and the central protagonist of Val McDermid’s popular crime novel series.
  • A. Eileen Paisley
    Eileen Paisley is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as a Democratic Unionist Party representative and is known as the wife of DUP founder and former First Minister Ian Paisley.
  • B. Joanne Catherall
    Joanne Catherall is an English singer best known as one of the longtime vocalists of the pioneering synth-pop band The Human League.
  • C. Aileen Pringle
    Aileen Pringle was an American silent film actress known for her sophisticated screen presence and roles in 1920s Hollywood cinema.
  • D. Mary Peate
    Mary Peate is a British radio drama producer and director known for her work with BBC Radio and for being married to actor Neil Dudgeon.
  • E. Karen Young
    Karen Young is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including a prominent role in the thriller "Jaws: The Revenge."
  • 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_69d8e51e7d948190aedbcd6c30361c39 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6589eb24081908715b683de1edc68 completed April 20, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0875fdccac819092279075a0ba3a4c completed May 16, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a087754af1481909a8ffa042aad2f42 completed May 16, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0877dcf9548190bd42db7a54aea824 completed May 16, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:51 p.m.