Triple

T2308207
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Midnight Cowboy E51890 entity
Predicate basedOnWorkAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object James Leo Herlihy
James Leo Herlihy was an American novelist, playwright, and actor best known for writing the novel "Midnight Cowboy," which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning film.
E259558 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: James Leo Herlihy | Statement: [Midnight Cowboy, basedOnWorkAuthor, James Leo Herlihy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Leo Herlihy
Context triple: [Midnight Cowboy, basedOnWorkAuthor, James Leo Herlihy]
  • A. John O’Keefe
    John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
  • B. Joseph Gargan
    Joseph Gargan was an American lawyer and political operative, a cousin and close associate of Senator Ted Kennedy who became known for his involvement in and later criticism of Kennedy’s actions surrounding the Chappaquiddick incident.
  • C. John O'Connor
    John O'Connor was a prominent American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York in the late 20th century and was known for his outspoken views on social and moral issues.
  • D. Donald Malarkey
    Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • E. Patrick E. Haggerty
    Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
  • 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: James Leo Herlihy
Triple: [Midnight Cowboy, basedOnWorkAuthor, James Leo Herlihy]
Generated description
James Leo Herlihy was an American novelist, playwright, and actor best known for writing the novel "Midnight Cowboy," which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning film.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Leo Herlihy
Target entity description: James Leo Herlihy was an American novelist, playwright, and actor best known for writing the novel "Midnight Cowboy," which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning film.
  • A. John O’Keefe
    John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
  • B. Joseph Gargan
    Joseph Gargan was an American lawyer and political operative, a cousin and close associate of Senator Ted Kennedy who became known for his involvement in and later criticism of Kennedy’s actions surrounding the Chappaquiddick incident.
  • C. John O'Connor
    John O'Connor was a prominent American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of New York in the late 20th century and was known for his outspoken views on social and moral issues.
  • D. Donald Malarkey
    Donald Malarkey was a real-life U.S. Army paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was famously depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • E. Patrick E. Haggerty
    Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
  • 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_69a88b0bb30c81908ded03b006d29387 completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc605cf808190a326e6c78e3f9166 completed March 7, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea87427f08190b8353f74c5231a32 completed March 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aea988feec8190a8f5d79cffbc14f6 completed March 9, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aea9d6b60c819083295d66f965ff33 completed March 9, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.