Triple

T20350231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject EarthBound E495985 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ness
Ness is a young boy with psychic powers and a baseball bat who serves as the protagonist of the cult-classic role-playing game EarthBound.
 E1425747 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: Ness | Statement: [EarthBound, mainCharacter, Ness]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ness
Context triple: [EarthBound, mainCharacter, Ness]
  • A. Ness
    Ness is a small village in the civil parish of Neston on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England.
  • B. Ness
    Ness is a surname most famously associated with Eliot Ness, the American Prohibition agent who led the "Untouchables" in combating organized crime in Chicago.
  • C. Ness
    Ness is a remote crofting and fishing community at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.
  • D. Olimar
    Olimar is the diminutive spacefaring captain from the Pikmin video game series who commands and relies on Pikmin to survive and complete his missions.
  • E. Nin
    Nin is a historic coastal town in Croatia known for its ancient salt pans, sandy beaches, and archaeological heritage dating back to Roman and early Croatian times.
  • 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: Ness
Triple: [EarthBound, mainCharacter, Ness]
Generated description
Ness is a young boy with psychic powers and a baseball bat who serves as the protagonist of the cult-classic role-playing game EarthBound.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ness
Target entity description: Ness is a young boy with psychic powers and a baseball bat who serves as the protagonist of the cult-classic role-playing game EarthBound.
  • A. Ness
    Ness is a remote crofting and fishing community at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.
  • B. Ness
    Ness is a small village in the civil parish of Neston on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England.
  • C. Ness
    Ness is a surname most famously associated with Eliot Ness, the American Prohibition agent who led the "Untouchables" in combating organized crime in Chicago.
  • D. Olimar
    Olimar is the diminutive spacefaring captain from the Pikmin video game series who commands and relies on Pikmin to survive and complete his missions.
  • E. Nin
    Nin is a historic coastal town in Croatia known for its ancient salt pans, sandy beaches, and archaeological heritage dating back to Roman and early Croatian times.
  • 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_69e0b4a3320881909495ae8bc30bc2dc completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6784eacf4819095504e541d1d284d completed April 20, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0869656ae4819084679d901249c2f7 completed May 16, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0869cc7308819087028f44af0386c2 completed May 16, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a086ab4c0a08190a1cd3ca5ea07512f completed May 16, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:24 a.m.