Triple

T18029699
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flicka E431352 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Rob McLaughlin
Rob McLaughlin is the young rancher’s son and central protagonist of the novel and film "Flicka," whose bond with a wild horse drives the story’s coming-of-age themes.
E1381747 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: Rob McLaughlin | Statement: [Flicka, mainCharacter, Rob McLaughlin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rob McLaughlin
Context triple: [Flicka, mainCharacter, Rob McLaughlin]
  • A. Kevin McLaughlin
    Kevin McLaughlin is a literary scholar and translator known for his English translation of Walter Benjamin’s "The Arcades Project."
  • B. Christian McLaughlin
    Christian McLaughlin is a television producer and writer known for his work on various comedy and genre projects, including the film "The Invisible Woman."
  • C. Ed McLaughlin
    Ed McLaughlin is an American college athletics administrator best known as the athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
  • D. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • E. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • 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: Rob McLaughlin
Triple: [Flicka, mainCharacter, Rob McLaughlin]
Generated description
Rob McLaughlin is the young rancher’s son and central protagonist of the novel and film "Flicka," whose bond with a wild horse drives the story’s coming-of-age themes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rob McLaughlin
Target entity description: Rob McLaughlin is the young rancher’s son and central protagonist of the novel and film "Flicka," whose bond with a wild horse drives the story’s coming-of-age themes.
  • A. Kevin McLaughlin
    Kevin McLaughlin is a literary scholar and translator known for his English translation of Walter Benjamin’s "The Arcades Project."
  • B. Christian McLaughlin
    Christian McLaughlin is a television producer and writer known for his work on various comedy and genre projects, including the film "The Invisible Woman."
  • C. Ed McLaughlin
    Ed McLaughlin is an American college athletics administrator best known as the athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
  • D. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • E. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • 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_69d8b9050fb48190890155145deb0a66 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4be347f6c8190b324fe74b7dc1764 completed April 19, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a074e5e9fb88190aab63e3d3318b63b completed May 15, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a074f4f3c008190b6483a994b2309cd completed May 15, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a075019f0b48190ae2469b1979e6cce completed May 15, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:25 a.m.