Triple

T12132965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Forever War E288979 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object William Mandella
William Mandella is the soldier-protagonist of Joe Haldeman’s science fiction novel "The Forever War," whose experiences highlight the psychological and social costs of relativistic interstellar warfare.
E970503 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: William Mandella | Statement: [The Forever War, mainCharacter, William Mandella]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Mandella
Context triple: [The Forever War, mainCharacter, William Mandella]
  • A. John Molo
    John Molo is an American drummer best known for his work in rock and jam band circles, including collaborations with members of the Grateful Dead.
  • B. Richard Madsen
    Richard Madsen is an American sociologist and scholar of Chinese society and culture, known for his influential work on religion, morality, and modernity, often in collaboration with Robert N. Bellah.
  • C. Alexander Mebane
    Alexander Mebane was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • D. Mazzini Dunn
    Mazzini Dunn is a mild, well-meaning but ineffectual businessman and father in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Heartbreak House," embodying the genteel incompetence of the Edwardian middle class.
  • E. Malcolm Byrne
    Malcolm Byrne is a historian and analyst known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and declassified government documents, often in collaboration with fellow researcher Peter Kornbluh.
  • 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: William Mandella
Triple: [The Forever War, mainCharacter, William Mandella]
Generated description
William Mandella is the soldier-protagonist of Joe Haldeman’s science fiction novel "The Forever War," whose experiences highlight the psychological and social costs of relativistic interstellar warfare.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Mandella
Target entity description: William Mandella is the soldier-protagonist of Joe Haldeman’s science fiction novel "The Forever War," whose experiences highlight the psychological and social costs of relativistic interstellar warfare.
  • A. John Molo
    John Molo is an American drummer best known for his work in rock and jam band circles, including collaborations with members of the Grateful Dead.
  • B. Richard Madsen
    Richard Madsen is an American sociologist and scholar of Chinese society and culture, known for his influential work on religion, morality, and modernity, often in collaboration with Robert N. Bellah.
  • C. Alexander Mebane
    Alexander Mebane was an American Revolutionary War officer and early North Carolina politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • D. Mazzini Dunn
    Mazzini Dunn is a mild, well-meaning but ineffectual businessman and father in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Heartbreak House," embodying the genteel incompetence of the Edwardian middle class.
  • E. Malcolm Byrne
    Malcolm Byrne is a historian and analyst known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and declassified government documents, often in collaboration with fellow researcher Peter Kornbluh.
  • 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_69d6ab4b5e4c81909950b17151eb0951 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9158b34648190b5eecdf9b07fbb3f completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60a79dd148190835c2679fb2df3b1 completed May 2, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60dbe4f788190a3b4be4b31cfbffa completed May 2, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60ee037bc8190be486e30e03031a7 completed May 2, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.