Triple

T21125114
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Costa Biography Award E520537 entity
Predicate notableWinner P2766 FINISHED
Object Hilary Spurling
Hilary Spurling is a British biographer and critic best known for her acclaimed, in-depth literary and artistic biographies, including her award-winning life of Henri Matisse.
E1489058 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: Hilary Spurling | Statement: [Costa Biography Award, notableWinner, Hilary Spurling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hilary Spurling
Context triple: [Costa Biography Award, notableWinner, Hilary Spurling]
  • A. Hilary Wainwright
    Hilary Wainwright is a British socialist feminist writer and academic known for her work on participatory democracy, left politics, and radical social movements.
  • B. Beverley Hughes
    Beverley Hughes is a British Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held several ministerial roles, including positions in the Home Office and as Minister for Children, Young People and Families.
  • C. Hilary Jeffkins
    Hilary Jeffkins is a television producer best known for her work on the British nature documentary series "Wild Isles."
  • D. Helen Melland
    Helen Melland was the wife of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the English upper-middle class in the late 19th century.
  • E. Helen Alderson
    Helen Alderson is a central character in the 2020 television adaptation of "All Creatures Great and Small," portrayed as a strong, compassionate Yorkshire farmer’s daughter and love interest of veterinarian James Herriot.
  • 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: Hilary Spurling
Triple: [Costa Biography Award, notableWinner, Hilary Spurling]
Generated description
Hilary Spurling is a British biographer and critic best known for her acclaimed, in-depth literary and artistic biographies, including her award-winning life of Henri Matisse.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hilary Spurling
Target entity description: Hilary Spurling is a British biographer and critic best known for her acclaimed, in-depth literary and artistic biographies, including her award-winning life of Henri Matisse.
  • A. Hilary Wainwright
    Hilary Wainwright is a British socialist feminist writer and academic known for her work on participatory democracy, left politics, and radical social movements.
  • B. Beverley Hughes
    Beverley Hughes is a British Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held several ministerial roles, including positions in the Home Office and as Minister for Children, Young People and Families.
  • C. Hilary Jeffkins
    Hilary Jeffkins is a television producer best known for her work on the British nature documentary series "Wild Isles."
  • D. Helen Melland
    Helen Melland was the wife of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the English upper-middle class in the late 19th century.
  • E. Helen Alderson
    Helen Alderson is a central character in the 2020 television adaptation of "All Creatures Great and Small," portrayed as a strong, compassionate Yorkshire farmer’s daughter and love interest of veterinarian James Herriot.
  • 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_69e0b50a623881909c0bbaf4f2c055e7 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e72237c1a4819090987c645114d452 completed April 21, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09e80dbc34819098e602f28ecda4c7 completed May 17, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09e8f8eb4481909ffd1566e8525314 completed May 17, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09e97bce4c8190bc9eb4cec0afe061 completed May 17, 2026, 4:14 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:56 p.m.