Triple

T2667647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Iceman Cometh E55674 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
E350278 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: Theodore Hickman | Statement: [The Iceman Cometh, mainCharacter, Theodore Hickman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Hickman
Context triple: [The Iceman Cometh, mainCharacter, Theodore Hickman]
  • A. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • B. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • C. Frank Irving Cobb
    Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
  • D. William H. Hunt
    William H. Hunt was a 19th-century American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and played a key role in modernizing the Navy’s institutions and intelligence capabilities.
  • E. Henry McDaniel
    Henry McDaniel was the father of Academy Award–winning actress Hattie McDaniel, known primarily in historical records for this parental connection.
  • 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: Theodore Hickman
Triple: [The Iceman Cometh, mainCharacter, Theodore Hickman]
Generated description
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Hickman
Target entity description: Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • A. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • B. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • C. Frank Irving Cobb
    Frank Irving Cobb was an influential American journalist and editor best known for leading the New York World’s editorial page in the early 20th century.
  • D. William H. Hunt
    William H. Hunt was a 19th-century American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and played a key role in modernizing the Navy’s institutions and intelligence capabilities.
  • E. Henry McDaniel
    Henry McDaniel was the father of Academy Award–winning actress Hattie McDaniel, known primarily in historical records for this parental connection.
  • 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_69ab49e54de48190be708cd1cf8be073 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd98a4ee88190aa7ef914e316ba31 completed March 7, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b324c5ed1c8190a7b42abe24785654 completed March 12, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b325a0de7c8190a33ae611b8450b5a completed March 12, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b326862e848190bf1bea74b6ab0b36 completed March 12, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:54 p.m.