Triple

T1678446
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject War Horse E36284 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Sergeant Fry
Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
E190439 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: Sergeant Fry | Statement: [War Horse, character, Sergeant Fry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Fry
Context triple: [War Horse, character, Sergeant Fry]
  • A. Lieutenant Vernon
    Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • B. Sergeant Joe Bomowski
    Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
  • C. Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
    Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
  • D. Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
    Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
  • E. Commander Schultz
    Commander Schultz is a sympathetic and conflicted military officer in Charlie Chaplin’s satirical film "The Great Dictator," who ultimately aids the film’s oppressed protagonists.
  • 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: Sergeant Fry
Triple: [War Horse, character, Sergeant Fry]
Generated description
Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Fry
Target entity description: Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • A. Lieutenant Vernon
    Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • B. Sergeant Joe Bomowski
    Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
  • C. Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
    Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
  • D. Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
    Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
  • E. Commander Schultz
    Commander Schultz is a sympathetic and conflicted military officer in Charlie Chaplin’s satirical film "The Great Dictator," who ultimately aids the film’s oppressed protagonists.
  • 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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa625f7e1081909c3c4fe76625783a completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71ba4db08190a532fb334fd0cd23 completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad73cfce488190b0ed6b85713281d3 completed March 8, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad74401cbc8190bfaba1e9f32810bc completed March 8, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.