Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Toy E49673 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Eric Bates
Eric Bates is the young, wealthy boy in the 1982 comedy film "The Toy" who whimsically "purchases" a man as his personal companion, driving much of the movie’s plot and humor.
E296444 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: Eric Bates | Statement: [The Toy, character, Eric Bates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Bates
Context triple: [The Toy, character, Eric Bates]
  • A. Steve Bartels
    Steve Bartels is a music industry executive best known for serving as CEO of Def Jam Recordings, where he oversaw major hip-hop and R&B artists and releases.
  • B. Eric Gregg
    Eric Gregg was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure in the National League and his participation in several high-profile postseason games.
  • C. David Bartel
    David Bartel is an American molecular biologist known for his pioneering research on microRNAs and RNA interference in gene regulation.
  • D. Bryan Woodman
    Bryan Woodman is a young, ambitious energy analyst whose personal tragedy and moral awakening drive one of the central storylines in the geopolitical drama film "Syriana."
  • E. Jonathan Byers
    Jonathan Byers is a quiet, introspective teenager and aspiring photographer from the Byers family in the supernatural horror series "Stranger Things."
  • 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: Eric Bates
Triple: [The Toy, character, Eric Bates]
Generated description
Eric Bates is the young, wealthy boy in the 1982 comedy film "The Toy" who whimsically "purchases" a man as his personal companion, driving much of the movie’s plot and humor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Bates
Target entity description: Eric Bates is the young, wealthy boy in the 1982 comedy film "The Toy" who whimsically "purchases" a man as his personal companion, driving much of the movie’s plot and humor.
  • A. Steve Bartels
    Steve Bartels is a music industry executive best known for serving as CEO of Def Jam Recordings, where he oversaw major hip-hop and R&B artists and releases.
  • B. Eric Gregg
    Eric Gregg was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure in the National League and his participation in several high-profile postseason games.
  • C. David Bartel
    David Bartel is an American molecular biologist known for his pioneering research on microRNAs and RNA interference in gene regulation.
  • D. Bryan Woodman
    Bryan Woodman is a young, ambitious energy analyst whose personal tragedy and moral awakening drive one of the central storylines in the geopolitical drama film "Syriana."
  • E. Jonathan Byers
    Jonathan Byers is a quiet, introspective teenager and aspiring photographer from the Byers family in the supernatural horror series "Stranger Things."
  • 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_69a88aaa9250819095e127d0d77e8a32 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc12029548190af9f2cdd7a4de2d6 completed March 7, 2026, 6:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc01a30608190839f9e11db0f7def completed March 10, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc0b6368081908e2520ac6680a409 completed March 10, 2026, 6:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc145e61881908c0eeae455b02a78 completed March 10, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.