Triple

T15757231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Assistant E381997 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Frank Alpine
Frank Alpine is the troubled drifter who becomes the central figure of moral struggle and redemption in Bernard Malamud’s novel "The Assistant."
E1175055 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: Frank Alpine | Statement: [The Assistant, protagonist, Frank Alpine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Alpine
Context triple: [The Assistant, protagonist, Frank Alpine]
  • A. Julius Gorner
    Julius Gorner is the primary antagonist in Sebastian Faulks's James Bond novel "Devil May Care," a wealthy and sadistic mastermind whose schemes threaten global stability.
  • B. Ralph Riach
    Ralph Riach was a Scottish character actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Copying Beethoven" and the long-running series "Hamish Macbeth."
  • C. Eric Shipton
    Eric Shipton was a renowned British mountaineer and explorer, celebrated for his pioneering climbs and exploratory expeditions in the Himalayas and East Africa.
  • D. Griffith Pugh
    Griffith Pugh was a British physiologist and mountaineer whose pioneering research on high-altitude performance and oxygen use was crucial to the success of the 1953 Everest expedition and modern altitude medicine.
  • E. Martyn Snow
    Martyn Snow is an Anglican bishop who serves as the current diocesan leader of the Church of England’s Diocese of Leicester.
  • 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: Frank Alpine
Triple: [The Assistant, protagonist, Frank Alpine]
Generated description
Frank Alpine is the troubled drifter who becomes the central figure of moral struggle and redemption in Bernard Malamud’s novel "The Assistant."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Alpine
Target entity description: Frank Alpine is the troubled drifter who becomes the central figure of moral struggle and redemption in Bernard Malamud’s novel "The Assistant."
  • A. Julius Gorner
    Julius Gorner is the primary antagonist in Sebastian Faulks's James Bond novel "Devil May Care," a wealthy and sadistic mastermind whose schemes threaten global stability.
  • B. Ralph Riach
    Ralph Riach was a Scottish character actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Copying Beethoven" and the long-running series "Hamish Macbeth."
  • C. Eric Shipton
    Eric Shipton was a renowned British mountaineer and explorer, celebrated for his pioneering climbs and exploratory expeditions in the Himalayas and East Africa.
  • D. Griffith Pugh
    Griffith Pugh was a British physiologist and mountaineer whose pioneering research on high-altitude performance and oxygen use was crucial to the success of the 1953 Everest expedition and modern altitude medicine.
  • E. Martyn Snow
    Martyn Snow is an Anglican bishop who serves as the current diocesan leader of the Church of England’s Diocese of Leicester.
  • 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_69d86d9e6b44819085d1f6a969ecb74c completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e050b1ff4881909d5240d1d30f5c8b completed April 16, 2026, 3 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff877311dc8190b55fe7ca5c0843da completed May 9, 2026, 7:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff881731ac8190baa3cea2c9b7975b completed May 9, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff88cfbe388190b20c426b4c745f92 completed May 9, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:47 a.m.