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]
  • A. Hicks
    Hicks is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, sports, entertainment, and other fields.
  • B. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • A. Hicks
    Hicks is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, sports, entertainment, and other fields.
  • B. Blatch
    Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • A. characterName
    Indicates that an entity has a specific name used to identify its character.
  • B. characterIn
    Indicates that an entity appears as a character within a specified work, story, or narrative.
  • C. character1
    Indicates that the subject is identified as the first or primary character in a narrative or context.
  • D. characterTheme
    Indicates that a particular theme, motif, or conceptual focus is associated with a given character.
  • 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.