Triple

T14413124
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Exorcist: The Beginning E357380 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Lankester Merrin
Lankester Merrin is a fictional Catholic priest and exorcist best known as the central character in the Exorcist film series, particularly for confronting demonic possession.
E1097625 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: Lankester Merrin | Statement: [Exorcist: The Beginning, mainCharacter, Lankester Merrin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lankester Merrin
Context triple: [Exorcist: The Beginning, mainCharacter, Lankester Merrin]
  • A. Charles Storrs
    Charles Storrs was a benefactor and early supporter of the institution that became the University of Connecticut, for whom the town of Storrs is named.
  • B. Dr. Erasmus Craven
    Dr. Erasmus Craven is a timid but good-hearted sorcerer, portrayed by Vincent Price, who becomes entangled in a magical rivalry in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
  • C. Alistair Smythe
    Alistair Smythe is a Marvel Comics supervillain and scientific genius best known as an enemy of Spider-Man and the creator of the deadly Spider-Slayer robots.
  • D. L. Raven-Hill
    L. Raven-Hill was a British illustrator and cartoonist known for his work in late 19th- and early 20th-century books and periodicals, including collaborations with authors like Rudyard Kipling.
  • E. Conrad Jarrett
    Conrad Jarrett is the troubled teenage protagonist of Judith Guest’s novel and the film "Ordinary People," struggling with survivor’s guilt, depression, and family dysfunction after his brother’s death.
  • 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: Lankester Merrin
Triple: [Exorcist: The Beginning, mainCharacter, Lankester Merrin]
Generated description
Lankester Merrin is a fictional Catholic priest and exorcist best known as the central character in the Exorcist film series, particularly for confronting demonic possession.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lankester Merrin
Target entity description: Lankester Merrin is a fictional Catholic priest and exorcist best known as the central character in the Exorcist film series, particularly for confronting demonic possession.
  • A. Charles Storrs
    Charles Storrs was a benefactor and early supporter of the institution that became the University of Connecticut, for whom the town of Storrs is named.
  • B. Dr. Erasmus Craven
    Dr. Erasmus Craven is a timid but good-hearted sorcerer, portrayed by Vincent Price, who becomes entangled in a magical rivalry in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
  • C. Alistair Smythe
    Alistair Smythe is a Marvel Comics supervillain and scientific genius best known as an enemy of Spider-Man and the creator of the deadly Spider-Slayer robots.
  • D. L. Raven-Hill
    L. Raven-Hill was a British illustrator and cartoonist known for his work in late 19th- and early 20th-century books and periodicals, including collaborations with authors like Rudyard Kipling.
  • E. Conrad Jarrett
    Conrad Jarrett is the troubled teenage protagonist of Judith Guest’s novel and the film "Ordinary People," struggling with survivor’s guilt, depression, and family dysfunction after his brother’s death.
  • 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_69d82793421c8190861eb0e673b085de completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de90cb3c708190822f5506ebf7ee9d completed April 14, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd552858208190ba1550e7c1176a2a completed May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd5671e4688190ab1b7a7ed6c0cfb8 completed May 8, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd57710f648190a1344ac1363acce1 completed May 8, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:17 a.m.