Triple
T2667648
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Iceman Cometh |
E55674
|
entity |
| Predicate | characterAlias |
P41555
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Hickey
Hickey is the charismatic yet unsettling traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the emotional and philosophical unraveling of the barroom denizens in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
|
E288317
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (5 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: Hickey | Statement: [The Iceman Cometh, characterAlias, Hickey]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hickey Context triple: [The Iceman Cometh, characterAlias, Hickey]
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A.
Hicks
Hicks is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, sports, entertainment, and other fields.
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B.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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C.
Hucknall
Hucknall is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, historically known for its coal mining industry and as the burial place of the poet Lord Byron.
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D.
Ickes
Ickes is a surname most prominently associated with Harold L. Ickes, a key U.S. political figure and Secretary of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Hix
Hix is a small town in the historical region of Cerdanya in the eastern Pyrenees, within present-day France.
- 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: Hickey Triple: [The Iceman Cometh, characterAlias, Hickey]
Generated description
Hickey is the charismatic yet unsettling traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the emotional and philosophical unraveling of the barroom denizens in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hickey Target entity description: Hickey is the charismatic yet unsettling traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the emotional and philosophical unraveling of the barroom denizens in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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A.
Hicks
Hicks is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, sports, entertainment, and other fields.
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B.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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C.
Hucknall
Hucknall is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, historically known for its coal mining industry and as the burial place of the poet Lord Byron.
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D.
Ickes
Ickes is a surname most prominently associated with Harold L. Ickes, a key U.S. political figure and Secretary of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Hix
Hix is a small town in the historical region of Cerdanya in the eastern Pyrenees, within present-day France.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: characterAlias Context triple: [The Iceman Cometh, characterAlias, Hickey]
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A.
characterName
Indicates that an entity has a specific name used to identify its character.
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B.
characterIn
Indicates that an entity appears as a character within a specified work, story, or narrative.
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C.
character1
Indicates that the subject is identified as the first or primary character in a narrative or context.
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D.
characterTheme
Indicates that a particular theme, motif, or conceptual focus is associated with a given character.
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E.
protagonistAlterEgoOf
Indicates that one entity is the alternate identity or secret persona of the main character (protagonist) in a narrative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (7 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_69afa05b008881908049751b73e800d0 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 4:38 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69afa21322248190bd472fc7578840fe |
completed | March 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69afa286c218819084a525556cb7b3e3 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 4:48 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69abd8190ad481908f3e14ac84d0940a |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:47 a.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69abd8f98c348190a68064c565589459 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:51 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:54 p.m.