Triple

T23406404
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Midnight Sky E559945 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Augustine Lofthouse
Augustine Lofthouse is the central scientist protagonist in the science fiction film "The Midnight Sky," portrayed as an isolated astronomer racing to warn a returning space crew of a global catastrophe.
E1584275 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: Augustine Lofthouse | Statement: [The Midnight Sky, mainCharacter, Augustine Lofthouse]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustine Lofthouse
Context triple: [The Midnight Sky, mainCharacter, Augustine Lofthouse]
  • A. Stephen Langdon
    Stephen Langdon was an American Assyriologist and archaeologist known for his early 20th-century excavations in Mesopotamia and his contributions to the study of Sumerian texts and ancient Near Eastern history.
  • B. Reginald Bacon
    Reginald Bacon was a British Royal Navy officer and military engineer best known for his leadership of the Dover Patrol during World War I and his contributions to naval gunnery and submarine development.
  • C. Laurence Nowell
    Laurence Nowell was a 16th-century English antiquary and scholar of Old English, best known for his pioneering work on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and early English history.
  • D. William Norris
    William Norris was an American businessman and computer industry pioneer best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Control Data Corporation, a major mainframe and supercomputer company.
  • E. Thomas Wardle
    Thomas Wardle was a 19th-century English silk dyer and industrialist renowned for his innovations in textile dyeing and his collaborations with Arts and Crafts designers such as William Morris.
  • 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: Augustine Lofthouse
Triple: [The Midnight Sky, mainCharacter, Augustine Lofthouse]
Generated description
Augustine Lofthouse is the central scientist protagonist in the science fiction film "The Midnight Sky," portrayed as an isolated astronomer racing to warn a returning space crew of a global catastrophe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustine Lofthouse
Target entity description: Augustine Lofthouse is the central scientist protagonist in the science fiction film "The Midnight Sky," portrayed as an isolated astronomer racing to warn a returning space crew of a global catastrophe.
  • A. Stephen Langdon
    Stephen Langdon was an American Assyriologist and archaeologist known for his early 20th-century excavations in Mesopotamia and his contributions to the study of Sumerian texts and ancient Near Eastern history.
  • B. Reginald Bacon
    Reginald Bacon was a British Royal Navy officer and military engineer best known for his leadership of the Dover Patrol during World War I and his contributions to naval gunnery and submarine development.
  • C. Laurence Nowell
    Laurence Nowell was a 16th-century English antiquary and scholar of Old English, best known for his pioneering work on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and early English history.
  • D. William Norris
    William Norris was an American businessman and computer industry pioneer best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Control Data Corporation, a major mainframe and supercomputer company.
  • E. Thomas Wardle
    Thomas Wardle was a 19th-century English silk dyer and industrialist renowned for his innovations in textile dyeing and his collaborations with Arts and Crafts designers such as William Morris.
  • 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_69e2454b3a5881909c64773dc8a5d289 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1a50e607c8190ba0a22e89862a2d9 completed April 29, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c5df67cac8190868ab0068248be07 completed May 19, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c5ff391208190a1e5e5d3604de8fb completed May 19, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c609b4e108190a8abe634d326f62d completed May 19, 2026, 1:07 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:38 p.m.