Triple

T20543912
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Dickson Carr E504415 entity
Predicate createdCharacter P2004 FINISHED
Object Sir Henry Merrivale
Sir Henry Merrivale is a blustery, eccentric yet brilliant fictional detective who stars in many of John Dickson Carr’s classic locked-room and puzzle mystery novels.
E1437271 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: Sir Henry Merrivale | Statement: [John Dickson Carr, createdCharacter, Sir Henry Merrivale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Henry Merrivale
Context triple: [John Dickson Carr, createdCharacter, Sir Henry Merrivale]
  • A. Thomas Edward Ravenshaw
    Thomas Edward Ravenshaw was a British colonial administrator in India whose contributions to education led to several prominent institutions being named in his honor.
  • B. Sir Oliver Lodge
    Sir Oliver Lodge was a pioneering British physicist and writer best known for his work in wireless telegraphy and early radio technology, as well as his popular science and spiritualist writings.
  • C. Charles Vereker
    Charles Vereker was an Irish soldier and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Sir Henry Mildmay
    Sir Henry Mildmay was a 17th-century English politician and courtier, known for his role in the events surrounding the English Civil War and the trial of King Charles I.
  • E. John Merivale
    John Merivale was a British-Canadian actor known for his work on stage, film, and television during the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Sir Henry Merrivale
Triple: [John Dickson Carr, createdCharacter, Sir Henry Merrivale]
Generated description
Sir Henry Merrivale is a blustery, eccentric yet brilliant fictional detective who stars in many of John Dickson Carr’s classic locked-room and puzzle mystery novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Henry Merrivale
Target entity description: Sir Henry Merrivale is a blustery, eccentric yet brilliant fictional detective who stars in many of John Dickson Carr’s classic locked-room and puzzle mystery novels.
  • A. Thomas Edward Ravenshaw
    Thomas Edward Ravenshaw was a British colonial administrator in India whose contributions to education led to several prominent institutions being named in his honor.
  • B. Sir Oliver Lodge
    Sir Oliver Lodge was a pioneering British physicist and writer best known for his work in wireless telegraphy and early radio technology, as well as his popular science and spiritualist writings.
  • C. Charles Vereker
    Charles Vereker was an Irish soldier and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Sir Henry Mildmay
    Sir Henry Mildmay was a 17th-century English politician and courtier, known for his role in the events surrounding the English Civil War and the trial of King Charles I.
  • E. John Merivale
    John Merivale was a British-Canadian actor known for his work on stage, film, and television during the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69e0b4b476648190bc6019622ae54d3c completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6a2957c308190aab81127f82f8aa6 completed April 20, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08a56d914c819093105dfbeef686f7 completed May 16, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08a66836d88190a63b42663455e491 completed May 16, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08a6e4bd1c8190969cf969812a2e56 completed May 16, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:38 a.m.