Triple

T1243192
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Torch Song Trilogy E26704 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Arnold Beckoff
Arnold Beckoff is a witty, openly gay drag queen and torch singer whose romantic struggles and search for acceptance drive the narrative of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy.
 E240482 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: Arnold Beckoff | Statement: [Torch Song Trilogy, mainCharacter, Arnold Beckoff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Arnold Beckoff
Context triple: [Torch Song Trilogy, mainCharacter, Arnold Beckoff]
  • A. Raymond Rosenthal
    Raymond Rosenthal was an American literary translator renowned for bringing major Italian and other European works, including those of Primo Levi, into English.
  • B. Joseph Schildkraut
    Joseph Schildkraut was an Austrian-American stage and film actor, best known for his roles in early Hollywood epics and for winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Life of Emile Zola."
  • C. David Wolffsohn
    David Wolffsohn was a prominent early Zionist leader and close associate of Theodor Herzl who helped shape and organize the Zionist movement in its formative years.
  • D. Paul Preuss
    Paul Preuss is a science fiction author known for his hard-SF novels and collaborations, including work with Arthur C. Clarke.
  • E. Carl Spitz
    Carl Spitz was a renowned German-American dog trainer best known for training Toto in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
  • 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: Arnold Beckoff
Triple: [Torch Song Trilogy, mainCharacter, Arnold Beckoff]
Generated description
Arnold Beckoff is a witty, openly gay drag queen and torch singer whose romantic struggles and search for acceptance drive the narrative of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Arnold Beckoff
Target entity description: Arnold Beckoff is a witty, openly gay drag queen and torch singer whose romantic struggles and search for acceptance drive the narrative of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy.
  • A. Raymond Rosenthal
    Raymond Rosenthal was an American literary translator renowned for bringing major Italian and other European works, including those of Primo Levi, into English.
  • B. Joseph Schildkraut
    Joseph Schildkraut was an Austrian-American stage and film actor, best known for his roles in early Hollywood epics and for winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Life of Emile Zola."
  • C. David Wolffsohn
    David Wolffsohn was a prominent early Zionist leader and close associate of Theodor Herzl who helped shape and organize the Zionist movement in its formative years.
  • D. Paul Preuss
    Paul Preuss is a science fiction author known for his hard-SF novels and collaborations, including work with Arthur C. Clarke.
  • E. Carl Spitz
    Carl Spitz was a renowned German-American dog trainer best known for training Toto in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
  • 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_69a4948689d08190b3a4a3f388c02148 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf61fadc8190b7b9e23eaa15a61d completed March 1, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae58a410a8819091c9bc3f46b0c09d completed March 9, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae59a9b010819081491e988184b386 completed March 9, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5a10607881909849a72201399d62 completed March 9, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.