Triple

T2173227
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Exorcist E48469 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Father Lankester Merrin
Father Lankester Merrin is a seasoned Catholic priest and experienced exorcist who confronts demonic forces in William Peter Blatty’s horror story and its film adaptations.
E243103 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: Father Lankester Merrin | Statement: [The Exorcist, mainCharacter, Father Lankester Merrin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Father Lankester Merrin
Context triple: [The Exorcist, mainCharacter, Father Lankester Merrin]
  • A. Father Felician
    Father Felician is a kindly Catholic priest who serves as a spiritual guide and protector to the heroine in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem "Evangeline."
  • B. Dr. Erasmus Craven
    Dr. Erasmus Craven is a timid but good-hearted sorcerer, portrayed by Vincent Price, who becomes entangled in a magical rivalry in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
  • C. Father Andrew
    Father Andrew is a kindly priest and mentor figure in Mark Twain's novel "The Prince and the Pauper," offering guidance and education to the pauper boy Tom Canty.
  • D. Conrad Jarrett
    Conrad Jarrett is the troubled teenage protagonist of Judith Guest’s novel and the film "Ordinary People," struggling with survivor’s guilt, depression, and family dysfunction after his brother’s death.
  • E. Stephen Sinclair
    Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay for Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
  • 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: Father Lankester Merrin
Triple: [The Exorcist, mainCharacter, Father Lankester Merrin]
Generated description
Father Lankester Merrin is a seasoned Catholic priest and experienced exorcist who confronts demonic forces in William Peter Blatty’s horror story and its film adaptations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Father Lankester Merrin
Target entity description: Father Lankester Merrin is a seasoned Catholic priest and experienced exorcist who confronts demonic forces in William Peter Blatty’s horror story and its film adaptations.
  • A. Father Felician
    Father Felician is a kindly Catholic priest who serves as a spiritual guide and protector to the heroine in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem "Evangeline."
  • B. Dr. Erasmus Craven
    Dr. Erasmus Craven is a timid but good-hearted sorcerer, portrayed by Vincent Price, who becomes entangled in a magical rivalry in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
  • C. Father Andrew
    Father Andrew is a kindly priest and mentor figure in Mark Twain's novel "The Prince and the Pauper," offering guidance and education to the pauper boy Tom Canty.
  • D. Conrad Jarrett
    Conrad Jarrett is the troubled teenage protagonist of Judith Guest’s novel and the film "Ordinary People," struggling with survivor’s guilt, depression, and family dysfunction after his brother’s death.
  • E. Stephen Sinclair
    Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay for Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
  • 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_69a88aa3faa48190995b233af6525815 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbecb97a48190834e3e536184bbd1 completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5d9c61448190930777bcf2028882 completed March 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e1ea6108190b22ead618d620613 completed March 9, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5ea7909c8190a93d87a5d07b84d4 completed March 9, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.