Triple

T20103778
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher Walton Cooper E496614 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Colonel Fitts in American Beauty
Colonel Fitts in American Beauty is a strict, repressed former Marine Corps officer whose rigid authoritarianism and internal conflicts drive much of the film’s dramatic tension.
E1412154 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: Colonel Fitts in American Beauty | Statement: [Christopher Walton Cooper, portrayed, Colonel Fitts in American Beauty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Fitts in American Beauty
Context triple: [Christopher Walton Cooper, portrayed, Colonel Fitts in American Beauty]
  • A. Colonel Reed in The Hurt Locker
    Colonel Reed in The Hurt Locker is a high-ranking, battle-hardened U.S. Army officer who briefly appears in the film to underscore the intensity and psychological strain of the Iraq War bomb disposal setting.
  • B. Colonel Bradford Taylor in A Different World
    Colonel Bradford Taylor in *A Different World* is a disciplined yet caring ROTC commander and math professor at Hillman College who serves as a firm but supportive mentor to the students.
  • C. Colonel Paradine
    Colonel Paradine is a central, enigmatic character in Robert Hichens’ novel "The Paradine Case," known primarily as the deceased husband whose suspicious death drives the story’s murder trial and psychological drama.
  • D. Captain Davenport in A Soldier's Story
    Captain Davenport in *A Soldier's Story* is a determined and principled Black Army lawyer who investigates a racially charged murder on a segregated World War II military base.
  • E. General Buck Turgidson
    General Buck Turgidson is a gung-ho, hawkish U.S. Air Force general and key comedic figure in Stanley Kubrick’s satirical film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
  • 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: Colonel Fitts in American Beauty
Triple: [Christopher Walton Cooper, portrayed, Colonel Fitts in American Beauty]
Generated description
Colonel Fitts in American Beauty is a strict, repressed former Marine Corps officer whose rigid authoritarianism and internal conflicts drive much of the film’s dramatic tension.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Fitts in American Beauty
Target entity description: Colonel Fitts in American Beauty is a strict, repressed former Marine Corps officer whose rigid authoritarianism and internal conflicts drive much of the film’s dramatic tension.
  • A. Colonel Reed in The Hurt Locker
    Colonel Reed in The Hurt Locker is a high-ranking, battle-hardened U.S. Army officer who briefly appears in the film to underscore the intensity and psychological strain of the Iraq War bomb disposal setting.
  • B. Colonel Bradford Taylor in A Different World
    Colonel Bradford Taylor in *A Different World* is a disciplined yet caring ROTC commander and math professor at Hillman College who serves as a firm but supportive mentor to the students.
  • C. Colonel Paradine
    Colonel Paradine is a central, enigmatic character in Robert Hichens’ novel "The Paradine Case," known primarily as the deceased husband whose suspicious death drives the story’s murder trial and psychological drama.
  • D. Captain Davenport in A Soldier's Story
    Captain Davenport in *A Soldier's Story* is a determined and principled Black Army lawyer who investigates a racially charged murder on a segregated World War II military base.
  • E. General Buck Turgidson
    General Buck Turgidson is a gung-ho, hawkish U.S. Air Force general and key comedic figure in Stanley Kubrick’s satirical film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
  • 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_69da626eee3881909f3454986d4a6511 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6667170a4819085d07a4188ded541 completed April 20, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a082712b04c81908e0413dee9a04ea6 completed May 16, 2026, 8:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a082864abdc819080a9822114eb8c25 completed May 16, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a082946da0c81909db45f0989020a17 completed May 16, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:27 p.m.