Triple

T14891980
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Goodbye, Columbus E359773 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Brenda Patimkin
Brenda Patimkin is a central character in Philip Roth's novella "Goodbye, Columbus," portrayed as a young, affluent Jewish woman whose relationship with the protagonist exposes tensions of class, identity, and assimilation in mid-20th-century American suburbia.
E1180751 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: Brenda Patimkin | Statement: [Goodbye, Columbus, notableCharacter, Brenda Patimkin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brenda Patimkin
Context triple: [Goodbye, Columbus, notableCharacter, Brenda Patimkin]
  • A. Brenda Denaut
    Brenda Denaut was an American actress and the mother of the late actor and transgender activist Alexis Arquette.
  • B. Brenda Vaccaro
    Brenda Vaccaro is an American actress known for her distinctive husky voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater since the 1960s.
  • C. Edie Martin
    Edie Martin was a British character actress known for her frequent appearances as elderly women in mid-20th-century British films and comedies.
  • D. Paula Alquist
    Paula Alquist is the psychologically tormented heroine of the 1944 film "Gaslight," whose manipulation by her husband gave rise to the term "gaslighting."
  • E. Marsha Garces
    Marsha Garces is an American film producer and philanthropist best known for her work on projects like "Mrs. Doubtfire" and for her long marriage to actor and comedian Robin Williams.
  • 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: Brenda Patimkin
Triple: [Goodbye, Columbus, notableCharacter, Brenda Patimkin]
Generated description
Brenda Patimkin is a central character in Philip Roth's novella "Goodbye, Columbus," portrayed as a young, affluent Jewish woman whose relationship with the protagonist exposes tensions of class, identity, and assimilation in mid-20th-century American suburbia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brenda Patimkin
Target entity description: Brenda Patimkin is a central character in Philip Roth's novella "Goodbye, Columbus," portrayed as a young, affluent Jewish woman whose relationship with the protagonist exposes tensions of class, identity, and assimilation in mid-20th-century American suburbia.
  • A. Brenda Denaut
    Brenda Denaut was an American actress and the mother of the late actor and transgender activist Alexis Arquette.
  • B. Brenda Vaccaro
    Brenda Vaccaro is an American actress known for her distinctive husky voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater since the 1960s.
  • C. Edie Martin
    Edie Martin was a British character actress known for her frequent appearances as elderly women in mid-20th-century British films and comedies.
  • D. Paula Alquist
    Paula Alquist is the psychologically tormented heroine of the 1944 film "Gaslight," whose manipulation by her husband gave rise to the term "gaslighting."
  • E. Marsha Garces
    Marsha Garces is an American film producer and philanthropist best known for her work on projects like "Mrs. Doubtfire" and for her long marriage to actor and comedian Robin Williams.
  • 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_69d827980cbc8190a0c569ae3940a1d9 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded5f883288190af602633fa7d6860 completed April 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffa92b99c48190b76e1306cf32a568 completed May 9, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffa9a8a8f48190bdeed1cb7143245d completed May 9, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffaa0b3750819096340bda8a7cf8f5 completed May 9, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:10 a.m.