Triple

T15741308
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Were the Mulvaneys E381607 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Patrick Mulvaney
Patrick Mulvaney is one of the central members of the Mulvaney family in Joyce Carol Oates’s novel "We Were the Mulvaneys," whose experiences reflect the story’s themes of trauma, family dissolution, and the struggle for redemption.
E1258831 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: Patrick Mulvaney | Statement: [We Were the Mulvaneys, hasCharacter, Patrick Mulvaney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Mulvaney
Context triple: [We Were the Mulvaneys, hasCharacter, Patrick Mulvaney]
  • A. Dennis McNulty
    Dennis McNulty is a designer known for his work on the wooden roller coaster Shivering Timbers.
  • B. Joseph McAuliffe
    Joseph McAuliffe is a notable individual who bears the surname McAuliffe, recognized enough to be specifically cited in reference works on the name.
  • C. Patrick Muldoon
    Patrick Muldoon is an American actor best known for his roles in the sci-fi film "Starship Troopers" and the soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
  • D. Frank X. McNamara
    Frank X. McNamara was an American businessman credited with pioneering the modern credit card industry as the creator of the first general-purpose charge card.
  • E. John O’Keefe
    John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
  • 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: Patrick Mulvaney
Triple: [We Were the Mulvaneys, hasCharacter, Patrick Mulvaney]
Generated description
Patrick Mulvaney is one of the central members of the Mulvaney family in Joyce Carol Oates’s novel "We Were the Mulvaneys," whose experiences reflect the story’s themes of trauma, family dissolution, and the struggle for redemption.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Mulvaney
Target entity description: Patrick Mulvaney is one of the central members of the Mulvaney family in Joyce Carol Oates’s novel "We Were the Mulvaneys," whose experiences reflect the story’s themes of trauma, family dissolution, and the struggle for redemption.
  • A. Dennis McNulty
    Dennis McNulty is a designer known for his work on the wooden roller coaster Shivering Timbers.
  • B. Joseph McAuliffe
    Joseph McAuliffe is a notable individual who bears the surname McAuliffe, recognized enough to be specifically cited in reference works on the name.
  • C. Patrick Muldoon
    Patrick Muldoon is an American actor best known for his roles in the sci-fi film "Starship Troopers" and the soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
  • D. Frank X. McNamara
    Frank X. McNamara was an American businessman credited with pioneering the modern credit card industry as the creator of the first general-purpose charge card.
  • E. John O’Keefe
    John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
  • 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_69d86d9cdb648190bf3171be0bd7d872 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04fd97d6c8190b2fa6ca422bfe512 completed April 16, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0170d8c9f0819099a398814f49f0ed completed May 11, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a017278b9408190ba496f554e55f833 completed May 11, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01732467408190b78c32296e20b55f completed May 11, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m.