Triple

T12390912
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Thorn Birds E295989 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Paddy Cleary
Paddy Cleary is a central figure in Colleen McCullough's novel "The Thorn Birds," portrayed as the hardworking Irish patriarch of the Cleary family who emigrates to Australia in search of a better life.
E982387 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: Paddy Cleary | Statement: [The Thorn Birds, character, Paddy Cleary]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paddy Cleary
Context triple: [The Thorn Birds, character, Paddy Cleary]
  • A. Gene Keady
    Gene Keady is a highly respected American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Purdue Boilermakers.
  • B. Dan Rooney
    Dan Rooney was a prominent American businessman and longtime owner and president of the Pittsburgh Steelers who also served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
  • C. Tommy Kelly
    Tommy Kelly was an American child actor best known for playing the title role in the 1938 film adaptation of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
  • D. Joe Mackins
    Joe Mackins is a supporting character in the period drama film "Albert Nobbs," involved in the social and romantic tensions surrounding the title character in 19th-century Dublin.
  • E. Donald Malarkey
    Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • 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: Paddy Cleary
Triple: [The Thorn Birds, character, Paddy Cleary]
Generated description
Paddy Cleary is a central figure in Colleen McCullough's novel "The Thorn Birds," portrayed as the hardworking Irish patriarch of the Cleary family who emigrates to Australia in search of a better life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paddy Cleary
Target entity description: Paddy Cleary is a central figure in Colleen McCullough's novel "The Thorn Birds," portrayed as the hardworking Irish patriarch of the Cleary family who emigrates to Australia in search of a better life.
  • A. Gene Keady
    Gene Keady is a highly respected American college basketball coach best known for his long, successful tenure leading the Purdue Boilermakers.
  • B. Dan Rooney
    Dan Rooney was a prominent American businessman and longtime owner and president of the Pittsburgh Steelers who also served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
  • C. Tommy Kelly
    Tommy Kelly was an American child actor best known for playing the title role in the 1938 film adaptation of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
  • D. Joe Mackins
    Joe Mackins is a supporting character in the period drama film "Albert Nobbs," involved in the social and romantic tensions surrounding the title character in 19th-century Dublin.
  • E. Donald Malarkey
    Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • 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_69d6ad9e653c8190b1473c860ee53dae completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93fd0bcc48190bb1a59a3aaa6bfdf completed April 10, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63479df38819085c5ca791c460d5e completed May 2, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6389115e48190b5b556635930b0d9 completed May 2, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6397a3458819095b94ae7f9d5f106 completed May 2, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:54 p.m.