Triple

T16635363
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eat a Bowl of Tea E404183 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ben Loy
Ben Loy is the conflicted Chinese American protagonist of Louis Chu’s novel "Eat a Bowl of Tea," whose struggles with tradition, masculinity, and cultural identity drive the story’s exploration of postwar Chinatown life.
 E1226749 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: Ben Loy | Statement: [Eat a Bowl of Tea, mainCharacter, Ben Loy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Loy
Context triple: [Eat a Bowl of Tea, mainCharacter, Ben Loy]
  • A. John Lowin
    John Lowin was a prominent early 17th-century English actor associated with Shakespeare’s company, known for performing major roles in Jacobean and Caroline drama.
  • B. Ben Brown
    Ben Brown is a British journalist and news presenter best known for his long-standing role as a BBC News anchor.
  • C. Ben Haggerty
    Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper and songwriter recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
  • D. George Bowers
    George Bowers was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood movies, including the baseball comedy-drama "A League of Their Own."
  • E. Ben Luther
    Ben Luther is a musician best known for having been a member of the American rock band Papa Roach.
  • 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: Ben Loy
Triple: [Eat a Bowl of Tea, mainCharacter, Ben Loy]
Generated description
Ben Loy is the conflicted Chinese American protagonist of Louis Chu’s novel "Eat a Bowl of Tea," whose struggles with tradition, masculinity, and cultural identity drive the story’s exploration of postwar Chinatown life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Loy
Target entity description: Ben Loy is the conflicted Chinese American protagonist of Louis Chu’s novel "Eat a Bowl of Tea," whose struggles with tradition, masculinity, and cultural identity drive the story’s exploration of postwar Chinatown life.
  • A. John Lowin
    John Lowin was a prominent early 17th-century English actor associated with Shakespeare’s company, known for performing major roles in Jacobean and Caroline drama.
  • B. Ben Brown
    Ben Brown is a British journalist and news presenter best known for his long-standing role as a BBC News anchor.
  • C. Ben Haggerty
    Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper and songwriter recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
  • D. George Bowers
    George Bowers was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood movies, including the baseball comedy-drama "A League of Their Own."
  • E. Ben Luther
    Ben Luther is a musician best known for having been a member of the American rock band Papa Roach.
  • 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_69d8838a41f08190b0c3f79c47df5078 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e378e999d48190bff680040dbc883d completed April 18, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a008a2b3a608190ad8d2b653cd8785d completed May 10, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a008b001c988190b0ddec3be0ed6fd0 completed May 10, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a008b9a8b6481909df37edcecdd292c completed May 10, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:17 a.m.