Triple

T20525755
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eric Ambler E503930 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Epitaph for a Spy
Epitaph for a Spy is a 1938 espionage novel by Eric Ambler that follows an unassuming language teacher who becomes entangled in a web of international intrigue after being falsely accused of spying.
E1436343 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: Epitaph for a Spy | Statement: [Eric Ambler, notableWork, Epitaph for a Spy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Epitaph for a Spy
Context triple: [Eric Ambler, notableWork, Epitaph for a Spy]
  • A. I Was a Spy
    I Was a Spy is a 1933 British war drama film about a Belgian woman who becomes a spy during World War I.
  • B. The Spy
    "The Spy" is an 1821 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper set during the American Revolutionary War, often regarded as one of the earliest major works of American fiction.
  • C. The Spy
    The Spy is a film featuring Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova in a prominent role within a Cold War espionage narrative.
  • D. A Legacy of Spies
    A Legacy of Spies is a 2017 espionage novel by John le Carré that revisits the Cold War world of George Smiley and the British intelligence service known as the Circus through the recollections of veteran spy Peter Guillam.
  • E. King of Spies
    King of Spies is a creator-owned espionage comic series from Mark Millar’s Millarworld imprint that follows an aging British secret agent waging a brutal one-man war on corruption.
  • 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: Epitaph for a Spy
Triple: [Eric Ambler, notableWork, Epitaph for a Spy]
Generated description
Epitaph for a Spy is a 1938 espionage novel by Eric Ambler that follows an unassuming language teacher who becomes entangled in a web of international intrigue after being falsely accused of spying.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Epitaph for a Spy
Target entity description: Epitaph for a Spy is a 1938 espionage novel by Eric Ambler that follows an unassuming language teacher who becomes entangled in a web of international intrigue after being falsely accused of spying.
  • A. I Was a Spy
    I Was a Spy is a 1933 British war drama film about a Belgian woman who becomes a spy during World War I.
  • B. The Spy
    "The Spy" is an 1821 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper set during the American Revolutionary War, often regarded as one of the earliest major works of American fiction.
  • C. The Spy
    The Spy is a film featuring Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova in a prominent role within a Cold War espionage narrative.
  • D. A Legacy of Spies
    A Legacy of Spies is a 2017 espionage novel by John le Carré that revisits the Cold War world of George Smiley and the British intelligence service known as the Circus through the recollections of veteran spy Peter Guillam.
  • E. King of Spies
    King of Spies is a creator-owned espionage comic series from Mark Millar’s Millarworld imprint that follows an aging British secret agent waging a brutal one-man war on corruption.
  • 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_69e0b4b3a6e08190ae663701f50fab8e completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6a06504b48190b3f1defdc23a47d5 completed April 20, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a089d4626d08190a87f07abd1380a3d completed May 16, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a089e69e1bc8190b2975e9a810fba77 completed May 16, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a089f4b56c48190a5e83f4678c525e3 completed May 16, 2026, 4:46 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:37 a.m.