Triple

T15082932
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hellboy: Seed of Destruction E360194 entity
Predicate lettersBy P36863 FINISHED
Object John Workman
John Workman is an American comic book letterer and artist known for his distinctive work on numerous titles for major publishers.
E1137032 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: John Workman | Statement: [Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, lettersBy, John Workman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Workman
Context triple: [Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, lettersBy, John Workman]
  • A. John Requa
    John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
  • B. Sean S. Cunningham
    Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
  • C. Roger Woodard
    Roger Woodard is a scholar best known for his work in classical studies and Indo-European linguistics, particularly on ancient Greek language and writing systems.
  • D. Robert Whitehill
    Robert Whitehill was a prominent Pennsylvania Anti-Federalist leader and legislator known for his strong opposition to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights.
  • E. Ian Hultquist
    Ian Hultquist is an American composer and musician best known for his film and television scores and as a founding member and former keyboardist of the indie pop band Passion Pit.
  • 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: John Workman
Triple: [Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, lettersBy, John Workman]
Generated description
John Workman is an American comic book letterer and artist known for his distinctive work on numerous titles for major publishers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Workman
Target entity description: John Workman is an American comic book letterer and artist known for his distinctive work on numerous titles for major publishers.
  • A. John Requa
    John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
  • B. Sean S. Cunningham
    Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
  • C. Roger Woodard
    Roger Woodard is a scholar best known for his work in classical studies and Indo-European linguistics, particularly on ancient Greek language and writing systems.
  • D. Robert Whitehill
    Robert Whitehill was a prominent Pennsylvania Anti-Federalist leader and legislator known for his strong opposition to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights.
  • E. Ian Hultquist
    Ian Hultquist is an American composer and musician best known for his film and television scores and as a founding member and former keyboardist of the indie pop band Passion Pit.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: lettersBy
Context triple: [Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, lettersBy, John Workman]
  • A. hasLetterBy
    Indicates that an entity possesses or is associated with a letter authored or sent by another entity.
  • B. letters
    Indicates that one entity is composed of, represented by, or associated with specific alphabetic characters or written symbols.
  • C. letterer chosen
    Indicates that one entity serves as the letterer of another, typically responsible for drawing or designing the lettering (such as text or captions) in that work.
  • D. letter3
    Indicates that one entity is the third letter (or character) of another entity, typically a string or word.
  • E. letterSequence
    Indicates that one sequence of letters directly follows or is ordered in relation to another within a larger string or alphabetic arrangement.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d85a035aa88190b52a139d3a1b7b6d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0027450a48190a84588b6aaf84ebf completed April 15, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69feae179a24819097019976707c93e1 completed May 9, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69feb074bc9c8190a080bb57bb1844be completed May 9, 2026, 3:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69feb0c2af8081909e845bb8c9f9cdc7 completed May 9, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69deb9645b9c8190a5712456dbd78029 completed April 14, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:03 a.m.