Triple

T21090649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Danny, the Champion of the World E519627 entity
Predicate containsCharacter P5716 FINISHED
Object Sergeant Samways
Sergeant Samways is a village policeman in Roald Dahl’s children’s novel "Danny, the Champion of the World," known for his good-natured, slightly bumbling support of Danny and his father.
E1466257 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: Sergeant Samways | Statement: [Danny, the Champion of the World, containsCharacter, Sergeant Samways]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Samways
Context triple: [Danny, the Champion of the World, containsCharacter, Sergeant Samways]
  • A. Sergeant J.J. Sefton
    Sergeant J.J. Sefton is the cynical, resourceful American POW protagonist of the film "Stalag 17," known for his self-serving schemes and eventual heroism inside a German prison camp during World War II.
  • B. Serjeant Glynn
    Serjeant Glynn was an English barrister who represented James Somerset in the landmark 1772 Somerset v Stewart case that helped advance the legal challenge to slavery in Britain.
  • C. Sergeant Waters
    Sergeant Waters is a complex, embittered Black non-commissioned officer in the film and play "A Soldier's Story," whose internalized racism and harsh leadership drive much of the story's central conflict.
  • D. Sergeant King
    Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
  • E. Sergeant Elijah Churchill
    Sergeant Elijah Churchill was an American Revolutionary War soldier in the Continental Army, distinguished for his bravery in combat and recognized as one of the first recipients of what would later evolve into the Purple Heart.
  • 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: Sergeant Samways
Triple: [Danny, the Champion of the World, containsCharacter, Sergeant Samways]
Generated description
Sergeant Samways is a village policeman in Roald Dahl’s children’s novel "Danny, the Champion of the World," known for his good-natured, slightly bumbling support of Danny and his father.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Samways
Target entity description: Sergeant Samways is a village policeman in Roald Dahl’s children’s novel "Danny, the Champion of the World," known for his good-natured, slightly bumbling support of Danny and his father.
  • A. Sergeant J.J. Sefton
    Sergeant J.J. Sefton is the cynical, resourceful American POW protagonist of the film "Stalag 17," known for his self-serving schemes and eventual heroism inside a German prison camp during World War II.
  • B. Serjeant Glynn
    Serjeant Glynn was an English barrister who represented James Somerset in the landmark 1772 Somerset v Stewart case that helped advance the legal challenge to slavery in Britain.
  • C. Sergeant Waters
    Sergeant Waters is a complex, embittered Black non-commissioned officer in the film and play "A Soldier's Story," whose internalized racism and harsh leadership drive much of the story's central conflict.
  • D. Sergeant King
    Sergeant King is a tough, by-the-book Air Force noncommissioned officer who serves as a comic foil to the naive protagonist in the 1958 military comedy film "No Time for Sergeants."
  • E. Sergeant Elijah Churchill
    Sergeant Elijah Churchill was an American Revolutionary War soldier in the Continental Army, distinguished for his bravery in combat and recognized as one of the first recipients of what would later evolve into the Purple Heart.
  • 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_69e0b507dd9081908fb8bfcbef4c8b46 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7094ea7f881909db83bf6961b41ec completed April 21, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a095a5a70c88190812a7ec9efa8fa42 completed May 17, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a095c017bec81909fd6c73a0fb677df completed May 17, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a095cee4c308190a08844f285231ff9 completed May 17, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:50 p.m.