Triple

T9235670
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Pelican Brief E221929 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Gray Grantham
Gray Grantham is an investigative journalist character in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Pelican Brief," known for uncovering high-level political corruption.
E787350 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: Gray Grantham | Statement: [The Pelican Brief, mainCharacter, Gray Grantham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gray Grantham
Context triple: [The Pelican Brief, mainCharacter, Gray Grantham]
  • A. Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
    Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham was an 18th-century British peer and politician who served as a diplomat and held various governmental offices under King George III.
  • B. Mr Crawley
    Mr Crawley is a proud, impoverished clergyman in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, best known for his severe integrity and the financial scandal that tests his character in "Framley Parsonage."
  • C. Ned Kynaston
    Ned Kynaston is a character in the film "Stage Beauty," portrayed as one of the last celebrated male actors to specialize in playing female roles on the 17th-century English stage.
  • D. Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham
    Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, is the fictional patriarch of the aristocratic Crawley family and master of Downton Abbey in the British period drama series "Downton Abbey."
  • E. Peter Harding
    Peter Harding was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff in the United Kingdom.
  • 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: Gray Grantham
Triple: [The Pelican Brief, mainCharacter, Gray Grantham]
Generated description
Gray Grantham is an investigative journalist character in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Pelican Brief," known for uncovering high-level political corruption.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gray Grantham
Target entity description: Gray Grantham is an investigative journalist character in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The Pelican Brief," known for uncovering high-level political corruption.
  • A. Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
    Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham was an 18th-century British peer and politician who served as a diplomat and held various governmental offices under King George III.
  • B. Mr Crawley
    Mr Crawley is a proud, impoverished clergyman in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, best known for his severe integrity and the financial scandal that tests his character in "Framley Parsonage."
  • C. Ned Kynaston
    Ned Kynaston is a character in the film "Stage Beauty," portrayed as one of the last celebrated male actors to specialize in playing female roles on the 17th-century English stage.
  • D. Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham
    Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, is the fictional patriarch of the aristocratic Crawley family and master of Downton Abbey in the British period drama series "Downton Abbey."
  • E. Peter Harding
    Peter Harding was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff in the United Kingdom.
  • 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_69ca83ed628c8190bc02d641e57f097f completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccf09d42488190b8ccb9c4b62fdda8 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d077cc774c8190bdbdd4071c11f096 completed April 4, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d07c0344a081908e33e9fc844204d9 completed April 4, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d07c5a82d88190a6b767a66ffd51ed completed April 4, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:29 p.m.