Triple

T18207757
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cocaine Nights E435949 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Frank Prentice
Frank Prentice is the central protagonist of J.G. Ballard’s novel "Cocaine Nights," through whose investigation of a seemingly idyllic but crime-ridden expatriate community the book’s themes of violence, leisure, and social control are explored.
E1319120 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: Frank Prentice | Statement: [Cocaine Nights, mainCharacter, Frank Prentice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Prentice
Context triple: [Cocaine Nights, mainCharacter, Frank Prentice]
  • A. John Prentice
    John Prentice is the accomplished Black doctor and fiancé in the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," whose interracial engagement to Matt Drayton's daughter drives the story's central conflict.
  • B. Frank Fay
    Frank Fay was an American stage and film actor and vaudeville comedian, noted as an early master of stand-up comedy and for his tumultuous marriage to actress Barbara Stanwyck.
  • C. Fred Dewhurst
    Fred Dewhurst was an English footballer best known as a key forward for Preston North End during their dominant late-19th-century era.
  • D. Morris Franklin
    Morris Franklin was a 19th-century American lawyer and businessman best known for co-founding the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
  • E. Frank Bryant
    Frank Bryant is a disillusioned, middle-aged university literature professor whose relationship with an eager working-class student drives the central transformation in the play and film "Educating Rita."
  • 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: Frank Prentice
Triple: [Cocaine Nights, mainCharacter, Frank Prentice]
Generated description
Frank Prentice is the central protagonist of J.G. Ballard’s novel "Cocaine Nights," through whose investigation of a seemingly idyllic but crime-ridden expatriate community the book’s themes of violence, leisure, and social control are explored.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Prentice
Target entity description: Frank Prentice is the central protagonist of J.G. Ballard’s novel "Cocaine Nights," through whose investigation of a seemingly idyllic but crime-ridden expatriate community the book’s themes of violence, leisure, and social control are explored.
  • A. John Prentice
    John Prentice is the accomplished Black doctor and fiancé in the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," whose interracial engagement to Matt Drayton's daughter drives the story's central conflict.
  • B. Frank Fay
    Frank Fay was an American stage and film actor and vaudeville comedian, noted as an early master of stand-up comedy and for his tumultuous marriage to actress Barbara Stanwyck.
  • C. Fred Dewhurst
    Fred Dewhurst was an English footballer best known as a key forward for Preston North End during their dominant late-19th-century era.
  • D. Morris Franklin
    Morris Franklin was a 19th-century American lawyer and businessman best known for co-founding the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
  • E. Frank Bryant
    Frank Bryant is a disillusioned, middle-aged university literature professor whose relationship with an eager working-class student drives the central transformation in the play and film "Educating Rita."
  • 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_69d8b90dba6481908e119eb9aa4ca0cb completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4e2261a848190b62a8485009f8f38 completed April 19, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03cc115e4c8190987815da96d56c8a completed May 13, 2026, 12:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03cc9835348190b1fb456afc59250f completed May 13, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03ccf0dc148190bfe6f1f9877750c0 completed May 13, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:32 a.m.