Triple

T18168697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Meet John Doe E434962 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object The Colonel
The Colonel is a character in the 1941 film "Meet John Doe," serving as a colorful, down-on-his-luck former newspaperman who becomes a key ally and voice of conscience to the protagonist.
 E1310004 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: The Colonel | Statement: [Meet John Doe, mainCharacter, The Colonel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Colonel
Context triple: [Meet John Doe, mainCharacter, The Colonel]
  • A. The Colonel
    The Colonel is the traditional mascot figure representing Eastern Kentucky University's athletic teams and school spirit.
  • B. The Colonel
    The Colonel is the ruthless, fanatical human military leader and main antagonist who wages a brutal war against Caesar and his apes in *War for the Planet of the Apes*.
  • C. The Colonel
    The Colonel was the nickname of Colonel Tom Parker, the influential and controversial music manager best known for guiding Elvis Presley’s career.
  • D. The Colonel
    The Colonel is a central, morally decayed aristocratic figure in August Strindberg’s play "The Ghost Sonata," embodying themes of hypocrisy, guilt, and social corruption.
  • E. the Colonel
    The Colonel is a central character in Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "La hojarasca," representing an aging, disillusioned patriarch who embodies the lingering legacy of past conflicts and the weight of family and societal obligations in a decaying Caribbean town.
  • 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: The Colonel
Triple: [Meet John Doe, mainCharacter, The Colonel]
Generated description
The Colonel is a character in the 1941 film "Meet John Doe," serving as a colorful, down-on-his-luck former newspaperman who becomes a key ally and voice of conscience to the protagonist.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Colonel
Target entity description: The Colonel is a character in the 1941 film "Meet John Doe," serving as a colorful, down-on-his-luck former newspaperman who becomes a key ally and voice of conscience to the protagonist.
  • A. The Colonel
    The Colonel is the traditional mascot figure representing Eastern Kentucky University's athletic teams and school spirit.
  • B. The Colonel
    The Colonel is the ruthless, fanatical human military leader and main antagonist who wages a brutal war against Caesar and his apes in *War for the Planet of the Apes*.
  • C. The Colonel
    The Colonel was the nickname of Colonel Tom Parker, the influential and controversial music manager best known for guiding Elvis Presley’s career.
  • D. The Colonel
    The Colonel is a central, morally decayed aristocratic figure in August Strindberg’s play "The Ghost Sonata," embodying themes of hypocrisy, guilt, and social corruption.
  • E. the Colonel
    The Colonel is a central character in Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "La hojarasca," representing an aging, disillusioned patriarch who embodies the lingering legacy of past conflicts and the weight of family and societal obligations in a decaying Caribbean town.
  • 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_69d8b90b7a188190b3fc7b8d4a6cd20a completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4df53ef148190a32aad0253547645 completed April 19, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a038fc6c5008190a5ade67801d6df75 completed May 12, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03914c5f6081908963548dc01a524a completed May 12, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03925c322081909d435251e869194d completed May 12, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:30 a.m.