Triple

T17884366
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Peter Milligan E447163 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object Shade, the Changing Man (pre-Vertigo DC) — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Shade, the Changing Man (pre-Vertigo DC) | Statement: [Peter Milligan, wrote, Shade, the Changing Man (pre-Vertigo DC)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shade, the Changing Man (pre-Vertigo DC)
Context triple: [Peter Milligan, wrote, Shade, the Changing Man (pre-Vertigo DC)]
  • A. The Shade (DCAU)
    The Shade (DCAU) is a shadow-manipulating supervillain in the DC Animated Universe, often depicted as a sophisticated criminal adversary of the Justice League.
  • B. Shades (Marvel Comics)
    Shades (Marvel Comics) is a minor Marvel supervillain and street-level criminal, often depicted as a gang member and associate of Power Man (Luke Cage) in the comics.
  • C. Shade, the Changing Girl
    Shade, the Changing Girl is a surreal DC Comics/Young Animal series following an alien who steals the Madness Vest and inhabits the body of a comatose teenage girl, exploring identity, trauma, and reality-bending chaos.
  • D. Shade, the Changing Girl/Wonder Woman Special
    Shade, the Changing Girl/Wonder Woman Special is a DC Comics one-shot that teams the reality-warping young hero Shade with Wonder Woman in a surreal, character-driven crossover story.
  • E. The Sandman (DC Golden Age version)
    The Sandman (DC Golden Age version) is a classic DC Comics superhero, originally a gas-mask-wearing, trench-coated crimefighter who used a sleep-inducing gas gun and operated as one of the earliest mystery men of the Golden Age.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shade, the Changing Man (pre-Vertigo DC)
Target entity description: Shade, the Changing Man (pre-Vertigo DC) is a DC Comics series about a dimension-hopping hero who wields a powerful M-Vest that alters reality, originally rooted in science-fiction and superhero themes before its later Vertigo reinvention.
  • A. The Shade (DCAU)
    The Shade (DCAU) is a shadow-manipulating supervillain in the DC Animated Universe, often depicted as a sophisticated criminal adversary of the Justice League.
  • B. Shades (Marvel Comics)
    Shades (Marvel Comics) is a minor Marvel supervillain and street-level criminal, often depicted as a gang member and associate of Power Man (Luke Cage) in the comics.
  • C. Shade, the Changing Girl
    Shade, the Changing Girl is a surreal DC Comics/Young Animal series following an alien who steals the Madness Vest and inhabits the body of a comatose teenage girl, exploring identity, trauma, and reality-bending chaos.
  • D. Shade, the Changing Girl/Wonder Woman Special
    Shade, the Changing Girl/Wonder Woman Special is a DC Comics one-shot that teams the reality-warping young hero Shade with Wonder Woman in a surreal, character-driven crossover story.
  • E. The Sandman (DC Golden Age version)
    The Sandman (DC Golden Age version) is a classic DC Comics superhero, originally a gas-mask-wearing, trench-coated crimefighter who used a sleep-inducing gas gun and operated as one of the earliest mystery men of the Golden Age.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8b9f59bd48190a6fc925a855b8bac completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e49c11530881908ad98fbd0a52b1c3 completed April 19, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:18 a.m.