Triple

T119925
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy E2422 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ford Prefect
Ford Prefect is a roving alien researcher and eccentric hitchhiker who serves as Arthur Dent’s savvy, sardonic guide to the universe in Douglas Adams’ comic science fiction series.
E13553 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: Ford Prefect | Statement: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mainCharacter, Ford Prefect]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ford Prefect
Context triple: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mainCharacter, Ford Prefect]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedic science fiction series following the misadventures of an unwitting human and his alien friend as they travel through an absurd and satirical universe.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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."
  • 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: Ford Prefect
Triple: [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mainCharacter, Ford Prefect]
Generated description
Ford Prefect is a roving alien researcher and eccentric hitchhiker who serves as Arthur Dent’s savvy, sardonic guide to the universe in Douglas Adams’ comic science fiction series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ford Prefect
Target entity description: Ford Prefect is a roving alien researcher and eccentric hitchhiker who serves as Arthur Dent’s savvy, sardonic guide to the universe in Douglas Adams’ comic science fiction series.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedic science fiction series following the misadventures of an unwitting human and his alien friend as they travel through an absurd and satirical universe.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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."
  • 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_69a2982221b48190a9f3ebc306cf4359 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2989abd3881908a5832f1a0014014 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a299c2e0a8819084ebe0f257653075 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.