Triple

T10371583
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Captain Benjamin L. Willard E244396 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Benjamin L. Willard
Benjamin L. Willard is the troubled U.S. Army officer and central protagonist of the film "Apocalypse Now," tasked with a covert mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
 E1069957 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: Benjamin L. Willard | Statement: [Captain Benjamin L. Willard, fullName, Benjamin L. Willard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin L. Willard
Context triple: [Captain Benjamin L. Willard, fullName, Benjamin L. Willard]
  • A. William A. Rutherford
    William A. Rutherford was a landscape designer known for shaping the grounds of major cultural sites such as the Storm King Art Center.
  • B. William B. Woods
    William B. Woods was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative rulings during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
  • C. Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis was an American art director and set decorator renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, particularly at MGM.
  • D. William A. Elliott
    William A. Elliott is a film art director known for his production design work on movies such as "Action Jackson."
  • E. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • 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: Benjamin L. Willard
Triple: [Captain Benjamin L. Willard, fullName, Benjamin L. Willard]
Generated description
Benjamin L. Willard is the troubled U.S. Army officer and central protagonist of the film "Apocalypse Now," tasked with a covert mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Benjamin L. Willard
Target entity description: Benjamin L. Willard is the troubled U.S. Army officer and central protagonist of the film "Apocalypse Now," tasked with a covert mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
  • A. William A. Rutherford
    William A. Rutherford was a landscape designer known for shaping the grounds of major cultural sites such as the Storm King Art Center.
  • B. William B. Woods
    William B. Woods was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative rulings during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
  • C. Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis was an American art director and set decorator renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, particularly at MGM.
  • D. William A. Elliott
    William A. Elliott is a film art director known for his production design work on movies such as "Action Jackson."
  • E. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • 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_69d381b3e328819094b23b8edcd29b5a completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e97ed09c8190a3627aa7b5eea62f completed April 7, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7ce593bbc8190827ca217f43140b9 completed May 3, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f9fd56da288190b2bd33bc496c3fb9 completed May 5, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fb039fdb1c8190ad5286d1cfe80a29 completed May 6, 2026, 9:02 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:01 p.m.