Triple

T11318923
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Soldier's Play E268039 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Sergeant Vernon C. Waters is a complex, embittered Black sergeant in Charles Fuller's play "A Soldier's Play," whose internalized racism and authoritarian leadership drive much of the drama's central conflict.
E918909 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: Sergeant Vernon C. Waters | Statement: [A Soldier's Play, notableCharacter, Sergeant Vernon C. Waters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Context triple: [A Soldier's Play, notableCharacter, Sergeant Vernon C. Waters]
  • A. Sergeant Milton Warden
    Sergeant Milton Warden is a tough, capable career soldier and central figure in James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity," known for his conflicted sense of duty and his illicit love affair with his commanding officer’s wife.
  • B. Sergeant Daniel Bissell
    Sergeant Daniel Bissell was an American Revolutionary War soldier and spy for the Continental Army who conducted dangerous intelligence missions behind British lines.
  • C. Lt. Harold Woodruff
    Lt. Harold Woodruff is a fictional military officer featured as a character in the war-themed board game "Attack!".
  • D. Sgt. Al Powell
    Sgt. Al Powell is a sympathetic Los Angeles police sergeant in the film "Die Hard" who becomes John McClane’s trusted ally and emotional support during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
  • E. Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
    Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
  • 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: Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Triple: [A Soldier's Play, notableCharacter, Sergeant Vernon C. Waters]
Generated description
Sergeant Vernon C. Waters is a complex, embittered Black sergeant in Charles Fuller's play "A Soldier's Play," whose internalized racism and authoritarian leadership drive much of the drama's central conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Target entity description: Sergeant Vernon C. Waters is a complex, embittered Black sergeant in Charles Fuller's play "A Soldier's Play," whose internalized racism and authoritarian leadership drive much of the drama's central conflict.
  • A. Sergeant Milton Warden
    Sergeant Milton Warden is a tough, capable career soldier and central figure in James Jones's novel "From Here to Eternity," known for his conflicted sense of duty and his illicit love affair with his commanding officer’s wife.
  • B. Sergeant Daniel Bissell
    Sergeant Daniel Bissell was an American Revolutionary War soldier and spy for the Continental Army who conducted dangerous intelligence missions behind British lines.
  • C. Lt. Harold Woodruff
    Lt. Harold Woodruff is a fictional military officer featured as a character in the war-themed board game "Attack!".
  • D. Sgt. Al Powell
    Sgt. Al Powell is a sympathetic Los Angeles police sergeant in the film "Die Hard" who becomes John McClane’s trusted ally and emotional support during the Nakatomi Plaza hostage crisis.
  • E. Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
    Sgt. Joe Broadhurst is a supporting police sergeant character on the 1970s American television crime drama "McCloud."
  • 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_69d6aaca5c24819083db46a30d86cb34 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e9de875481908acfa56015d4b46f completed April 9, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e525d3160c8190b58c5c04a66b3e3e completed April 19, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e52c81449c8190847b64fa91a45b2e completed April 19, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e531b079708190ac9e19127d36a848 completed April 19, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.