Triple

T10809019
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden E255046 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")
Sam Bowden is the principled small-town lawyer and family man who becomes the target of a vengeful ex-convict in John D. MacDonald’s thriller novel "The Executioners."
E888101 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: Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners") | Statement: [Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden, basedOn, Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")
Context triple: [Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden, basedOn, Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")]
  • A. Ned Rawlins
    Ned Rawlins is a character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," involved in the story’s exploration of alien contact and human isolation.
  • B. Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard
    Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard is the relentless lawman character from the 1960s television series "The Fugitive," obsessed with capturing Dr. Richard Kimble.
  • C. Doug Drummond
    Doug Drummond is a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • D. John Read
    John Read is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinction is sharing the surname associated with the Read family name.
  • E. Vaughn McKoy
    Vaughn McKoy is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the science-fiction drama series "FlashForward."
  • 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: Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")
Triple: [Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden, basedOn, Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")]
Generated description
Sam Bowden is the principled small-town lawyer and family man who becomes the target of a vengeful ex-convict in John D. MacDonald’s thriller novel "The Executioners."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")
Target entity description: Sam Bowden is the principled small-town lawyer and family man who becomes the target of a vengeful ex-convict in John D. MacDonald’s thriller novel "The Executioners."
  • A. Ned Rawlins
    Ned Rawlins is a character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," involved in the story’s exploration of alien contact and human isolation.
  • B. Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard
    Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard is the relentless lawman character from the 1960s television series "The Fugitive," obsessed with capturing Dr. Richard Kimble.
  • C. Doug Drummond
    Doug Drummond is a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • D. John Read
    John Read is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinction is sharing the surname associated with the Read family name.
  • E. Vaughn McKoy
    Vaughn McKoy is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the science-fiction drama series "FlashForward."
  • 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_69d6aa61c15c8190a1839550c56e75e1 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d733b60c6481909b043565a65f996d completed April 9, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de8513fe0881909d6833c85aac03a8 completed April 14, 2026, 6:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de8e6f3fac8190bcd1675978d6d6d7 completed April 14, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de8fa679cc81909cb51035e5403ce9 completed April 14, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.