Triple

T17692721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mildred Pierce (novel) E441073 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Bert Pierce
Bert Pierce is a central character in James M. Cain’s novel "Mildred Pierce," serving as Mildred’s estranged husband and a key figure in the story’s exploration of family, class, and betrayal.
E1284581 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: Bert Pierce | Statement: [Mildred Pierce (novel), mainCharacter, Bert Pierce]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bert Pierce
Context triple: [Mildred Pierce (novel), mainCharacter, Bert Pierce]
  • A. Carl Hubbell
    Carl Hubbell was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his devastating screwball and dominance with the New York Giants during the 1930s.
  • B. Billy Keller
    Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
  • C. Luke Appling
    Luke Appling was a star shortstop for the Chicago White Sox and a Baseball Hall of Famer known for his exceptional hitting and on-base skills during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Eugene Marchbanks
    Eugene Marchbanks is a sensitive young poet and one of the central figures in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Candida," whose idealistic love for the title character drives much of the drama’s emotional and philosophical conflict.
  • E. Roger Cobb
    Roger Cobb is the harried, skeptical lawyer who becomes comically entangled with a deceased heiress’s spirit in the 1984 fantasy-comedy film "All of Me."
  • 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: Bert Pierce
Triple: [Mildred Pierce (novel), mainCharacter, Bert Pierce]
Generated description
Bert Pierce is a central character in James M. Cain’s novel "Mildred Pierce," serving as Mildred’s estranged husband and a key figure in the story’s exploration of family, class, and betrayal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bert Pierce
Target entity description: Bert Pierce is a central character in James M. Cain’s novel "Mildred Pierce," serving as Mildred’s estranged husband and a key figure in the story’s exploration of family, class, and betrayal.
  • A. Carl Hubbell
    Carl Hubbell was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his devastating screwball and dominance with the New York Giants during the 1930s.
  • B. Billy Keller
    Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
  • C. Luke Appling
    Luke Appling was a star shortstop for the Chicago White Sox and a Baseball Hall of Famer known for his exceptional hitting and on-base skills during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Eugene Marchbanks
    Eugene Marchbanks is a sensitive young poet and one of the central figures in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Candida," whose idealistic love for the title character drives much of the drama’s emotional and philosophical conflict.
  • E. Roger Cobb
    Roger Cobb is the harried, skeptical lawyer who becomes comically entangled with a deceased heiress’s spirit in the 1984 fantasy-comedy film "All of Me."
  • 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_69d8b9e940b081908b862bb0e6e89b0d completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e47153a5c8819095c36fd414167fb1 completed April 19, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02301aab388190a6a44feb57468201 completed May 11, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a02344201fc8190acc1783878117cdd completed May 11, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0234b09e688190af7c65fd89a2e4cd completed May 11, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:03 a.m.