Triple

T21008496
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Bolam E517479 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Jack Halford in New Tricks
Jack Halford in New Tricks is a retired detective and founding member of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, known for his calm authority, old-school policing methods, and emotional depth rooted in the loss of his wife.
E1461536 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: Jack Halford in New Tricks | Statement: [James Bolam, portrayed, Jack Halford in New Tricks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Halford in New Tricks
Context triple: [James Bolam, portrayed, Jack Halford in New Tricks]
  • A. Tony Gates in Line of Duty
    Tony Gates in Line of Duty is a high-ranking, highly commended police officer whose morally compromised decisions place him at the center of the show's first major corruption investigation.
  • B. Billy Lyons
    Billy Lyons is the ill-fated victim in the traditional American folk ballad "Stagger Lee," whose shooting over a gambling dispute drives the song’s narrative.
  • C. Alexander Newley
    Alexander Newley is a British portrait artist and writer, known for his expressive paintings of notable cultural and political figures.
  • D. Paul Caine
    Paul Caine is a media and advertising executive known for his leadership roles in digital video and ad-tech companies, including serving as a key executive at Telaria.
  • E. Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis
    Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis is a fictional Oxford-based police detective, best known as Inspector Morse’s loyal and down-to-earth sidekick in the British crime drama series.
  • 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: Jack Halford in New Tricks
Triple: [James Bolam, portrayed, Jack Halford in New Tricks]
Generated description
Jack Halford in New Tricks is a retired detective and founding member of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, known for his calm authority, old-school policing methods, and emotional depth rooted in the loss of his wife.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jack Halford in New Tricks
Target entity description: Jack Halford in New Tricks is a retired detective and founding member of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, known for his calm authority, old-school policing methods, and emotional depth rooted in the loss of his wife.
  • A. Tony Gates in Line of Duty
    Tony Gates in Line of Duty is a high-ranking, highly commended police officer whose morally compromised decisions place him at the center of the show's first major corruption investigation.
  • B. Billy Lyons
    Billy Lyons is the ill-fated victim in the traditional American folk ballad "Stagger Lee," whose shooting over a gambling dispute drives the song’s narrative.
  • C. Alexander Newley
    Alexander Newley is a British portrait artist and writer, known for his expressive paintings of notable cultural and political figures.
  • D. Paul Caine
    Paul Caine is a media and advertising executive known for his leadership roles in digital video and ad-tech companies, including serving as a key executive at Telaria.
  • E. Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis
    Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis is a fictional Oxford-based police detective, best known as Inspector Morse’s loyal and down-to-earth sidekick in the British crime drama series.
  • 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_69e0b50192308190a284fcc89dd23a49 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6fc3dcb5081909b06d6db10fefba6 completed April 21, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a093b5e76508190bec3a12c06c18d39 completed May 17, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a093cefdbec81909905a866b99e6c5b completed May 17, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a093d595f44819096effb5bead8713e completed May 17, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 1:53 p.m.