Triple

T119924
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy E2422 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
E12974 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: Arthur Dent | Statement: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mainCharacter, Arthur Dent]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Dent
Context triple: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mainCharacter, Arthur Dent]
  • A. Roger the Alien
    Roger the Alien is a flamboyant, shape-shifting extraterrestrial character from the animated TV series "American Dad!" known for his sarcastic humor, elaborate disguises, and chaotic schemes.
  • B. Bardeen
    Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • C. Ellie Arroway
    Ellie Arroway is a brilliant and determined radio astronomer who becomes the central figure in humanity’s first confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s science fiction story "Contact."
  • D. Michael Hart
    Michael Hart was the founder of Project Gutenberg and a pioneer of digital libraries and e-books.
  • E. Carl
    Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
  • 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: Arthur Dent
Triple: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mainCharacter, Arthur Dent]
Generated description
Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Dent
Target entity description: Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
  • A. Roger the Alien
    Roger the Alien is a flamboyant, shape-shifting extraterrestrial character from the animated TV series "American Dad!" known for his sarcastic humor, elaborate disguises, and chaotic schemes.
  • B. Bardeen
    Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • C. Ellie Arroway
    Ellie Arroway is a brilliant and determined radio astronomer who becomes the central figure in humanity’s first confirmed contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s science fiction story "Contact."
  • D. Michael Hart
    Michael Hart was the founder of Project Gutenberg and a pioneer of digital libraries and e-books.
  • E. Carl
    Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
  • 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_69a2506c5428819085c28a8884790e29 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25715cfb881909ffb488f21a4a16d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2917de638819087f7c16d21963c63 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a295bbc23c81908194d6f4bea4fcd4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2968bffd881908147c66838776fef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.