Triple

T1725262
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Salem's Lot E37481 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ben Mears
Ben Mears is a novelist and the protagonist of Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," who returns to his childhood town only to confront a spreading vampire infestation.
 E195227 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 Mears | Statement: [Salem's Lot, mainCharacter, Ben Mears]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Mears
Context triple: [Salem's Lot, mainCharacter, Ben Mears]
  • A. Elias Loomis
    Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
  • B. John Howland
    John Howland was an English colonist and Mayflower passenger who became a prominent early settler and leader in Plymouth Colony.
  • C. Daniel Comstock
    Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
  • D. Silas Phelps
    Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
  • E. Elias Pearce
    Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
  • 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 Mears
Triple: [Salem's Lot, mainCharacter, Ben Mears]
Generated description
Ben Mears is a novelist and the protagonist of Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," who returns to his childhood town only to confront a spreading vampire infestation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ben Mears
Target entity description: Ben Mears is a novelist and the protagonist of Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," who returns to his childhood town only to confront a spreading vampire infestation.
  • A. Elias Loomis
    Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
  • B. John Howland
    John Howland was an English colonist and Mayflower passenger who became a prominent early settler and leader in Plymouth Colony.
  • C. Daniel Comstock
    Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
  • D. Silas Phelps
    Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
  • E. Elias Pearce
    Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
  • 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_69a8861acab88190bb43cde203429399 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa635cad5481908e6c04a230d3b0bb completed March 6, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8aefefc881908acd48eebc67c6ec completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad979ce880819089daecbc8455ec84 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad9ba92a848190918a8748fb65348a completed March 8, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.