Triple

T14566882
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In the Heart of the Sea E341806 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object George Pollard Jr.
George Pollard Jr. was the real-life captain of the whaleship Essex, whose disastrous sinking by a sperm whale inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and is dramatized in "In the Heart of the Sea."
E1106736 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: George Pollard Jr. | Statement: [In the Heart of the Sea, character, George Pollard Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Pollard Jr.
Context triple: [In the Heart of the Sea, character, George Pollard Jr.]
  • A. Marcellus Washburn
    Marcellus Washburn is a comedic supporting character in the musical "The Music Man," known as Harold Hill’s friend and the exuberant singer of the number "Shipoopi."
  • B. Orlando Woodward
    Orlando Woodward is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Woodward surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
  • C. Jules Bledsoe
    Jules Bledsoe was an American baritone singer and actor best remembered as an early and influential African American star of musical theatre and opera in the early 20th century.
  • D. Brutus Jones
    Brutus Jones is the ambitious, self-made African American protagonist of Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Emperor Jones," whose rise and fall as a tyrannical ruler in a Caribbean nation explores themes of power, race, and psychological torment.
  • E. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • 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: George Pollard Jr.
Triple: [In the Heart of the Sea, character, George Pollard Jr.]
Generated description
George Pollard Jr. was the real-life captain of the whaleship Essex, whose disastrous sinking by a sperm whale inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and is dramatized in "In the Heart of the Sea."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Pollard Jr.
Target entity description: George Pollard Jr. was the real-life captain of the whaleship Essex, whose disastrous sinking by a sperm whale inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and is dramatized in "In the Heart of the Sea."
  • A. Marcellus Washburn
    Marcellus Washburn is a comedic supporting character in the musical "The Music Man," known as Harold Hill’s friend and the exuberant singer of the number "Shipoopi."
  • B. Orlando Woodward
    Orlando Woodward is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Woodward surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
  • C. Jules Bledsoe
    Jules Bledsoe was an American baritone singer and actor best remembered as an early and influential African American star of musical theatre and opera in the early 20th century.
  • D. Brutus Jones
    Brutus Jones is the ambitious, self-made African American protagonist of Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Emperor Jones," whose rise and fall as a tyrannical ruler in a Caribbean nation explores themes of power, race, and psychological torment.
  • E. Saunders Terrell
    Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player renowned for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
  • 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_69d822dcc6248190bed689984bceb0e2 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb38d89fc819086709fd3607b835f completed April 14, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd8ac669cc819083e05620b1e8c370 completed May 8, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd8c5b09448190ad084746a6dd23f5 completed May 8, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd8d609684819090a9c3f2304f4a6a completed May 8, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:23 a.m.