Triple

T23172257
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Kind of Loving E578889 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Vic Brown
Vic Brown is the working-class protagonist of Stan Barstow’s novel "A Kind of Loving," whose impulsive marriage and subsequent struggles explore themes of love, responsibility, and social expectation in mid-20th-century Northern England.
 E1573094 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: Vic Brown | Statement: [A Kind of Loving, mainCharacter, Vic Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vic Brown
Context triple: [A Kind of Loving, mainCharacter, Vic Brown]
  • A. Vic Bloom
    Vic Bloom was an American comic book writer best known for co-creating the Archie Comics character Veronica Lodge.
  • B. Vince McKewin
    Vince McKewin is a screenwriter best known for writing the sports comedy film "The Replacements."
  • C. Vic Lewis
    Vic Lewis was a British jazz bandleader, guitarist, and impresario known for leading big bands and promoting jazz in the UK from the mid-20th century onward.
  • D. Vince Vieluf
    Vince Vieluf is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Rat Race" and various television comedies.
  • E. Stephen Vail
    Stephen Vail was a prominent early 19th-century American industrialist and ironworks owner in New Jersey, best known as the father of telegraph pioneer Alfred Vail.
  • 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: Vic Brown
Triple: [A Kind of Loving, mainCharacter, Vic Brown]
Generated description
Vic Brown is the working-class protagonist of Stan Barstow’s novel "A Kind of Loving," whose impulsive marriage and subsequent struggles explore themes of love, responsibility, and social expectation in mid-20th-century Northern England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vic Brown
Target entity description: Vic Brown is the working-class protagonist of Stan Barstow’s novel "A Kind of Loving," whose impulsive marriage and subsequent struggles explore themes of love, responsibility, and social expectation in mid-20th-century Northern England.
  • A. Vic Bloom
    Vic Bloom was an American comic book writer best known for co-creating the Archie Comics character Veronica Lodge.
  • B. Vince McKewin
    Vince McKewin is a screenwriter best known for writing the sports comedy film "The Replacements."
  • C. Vic Lewis
    Vic Lewis was a British jazz bandleader, guitarist, and impresario known for leading big bands and promoting jazz in the UK from the mid-20th century onward.
  • D. Vince Vieluf
    Vince Vieluf is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Rat Race" and various television comedies.
  • E. Stephen Vail
    Stephen Vail was a prominent early 19th-century American industrialist and ironworks owner in New Jersey, best known as the father of telegraph pioneer Alfred Vail.
  • 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_69e245fd2a388190b814c0dfa15f7148 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18f30ce148190a6de928c8213399e completed April 29, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c30aa91488190a115f3a44ff25348 completed May 19, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c326f3b4c819099ea8776b84fa279 completed May 19, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c32ece3148190a22881d69c42e948 completed May 19, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:04 p.m.