Triple

T14892082
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Human Stain E359776 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Coleman Silk
Coleman Silk is a classics professor whose life unravels after a false accusation of racism exposes long-buried secrets about his identity in Philip Roth's novel "The Human Stain."
E1124720 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: Coleman Silk | Statement: [The Human Stain, mainCharacter, Coleman Silk]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Coleman Silk
Context triple: [The Human Stain, mainCharacter, Coleman Silk]
  • A. George Coleman
    George Coleman is an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his work in the 1960s with Miles Davis and his influential hard bop and post-bop performances.
  • B. Hurd Curtis Willett
    Hurd Curtis Willett was an American meteorologist known for his influential work on atmospheric circulation and long-range weather forecasting.
  • C. Charles Somers
    Charles Somers was an early 20th-century baseball executive and financier who played a key role in founding and supporting the American League and several of its franchises.
  • D. John Henshaw
    John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
  • E. Elmer Smith
    Elmer Smith was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for hitting the first grand slam in World Series history during the 1920 Fall Classic.
  • 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: Coleman Silk
Triple: [The Human Stain, mainCharacter, Coleman Silk]
Generated description
Coleman Silk is a classics professor whose life unravels after a false accusation of racism exposes long-buried secrets about his identity in Philip Roth's novel "The Human Stain."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Coleman Silk
Target entity description: Coleman Silk is a classics professor whose life unravels after a false accusation of racism exposes long-buried secrets about his identity in Philip Roth's novel "The Human Stain."
  • A. George Coleman
    George Coleman is an American jazz saxophonist renowned for his work in the 1960s with Miles Davis and his influential hard bop and post-bop performances.
  • B. Hurd Curtis Willett
    Hurd Curtis Willett was an American meteorologist known for his influential work on atmospheric circulation and long-range weather forecasting.
  • C. Charles Somers
    Charles Somers was an early 20th-century baseball executive and financier who played a key role in founding and supporting the American League and several of its franchises.
  • D. John Henshaw
    John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
  • E. Elmer Smith
    Elmer Smith was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for hitting the first grand slam in World Series history during the 1920 Fall Classic.
  • 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_69fe6b65ac5c81908691de1161d07de0 completed May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe6c68c46881909e7c748c0dff73d5 completed May 8, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe6d1eea60819087ca2ebc7d0a8994 completed May 8, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:10 a.m.