Triple
T2902965
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gravity’s Rainbow |
E62692
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Tyrone Slothrop
Tyrone Slothrop is the paranoid, womanizing American lieutenant at the center of Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose bizarre connections to V-2 rocket strikes drive much of the book’s sprawling, surreal narrative.
|
E309691
|
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: Tyrone Slothrop | Statement: [Gravity’s Rainbow, mainCharacter, Tyrone Slothrop]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tyrone Slothrop Context triple: [Gravity’s Rainbow, mainCharacter, Tyrone Slothrop]
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A.
Tommy Atkins
Tommy Atkins is a widely grown commercial mango cultivar known for its attractive color, long shelf life, and firm, fibrous flesh.
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B.
Thomas Knowlton
Thomas Knowlton was a Continental Army officer and early American war hero, best known for leading an elite reconnaissance unit known as Knowlton's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Marshall Murdock
Marshall Murdock is a duplicitous U.S. government official in the film "Rambo: First Blood Part II" who oversees and ultimately betrays John Rambo during a covert mission.
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D.
John Pelham
John Pelham was a Confederate artillery officer in the American Civil War, renowned for his daring and effective command of horse artillery.
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E.
Nat Hickey
Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
- 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: Tyrone Slothrop Triple: [Gravity’s Rainbow, mainCharacter, Tyrone Slothrop]
Generated description
Tyrone Slothrop is the paranoid, womanizing American lieutenant at the center of Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose bizarre connections to V-2 rocket strikes drive much of the book’s sprawling, surreal narrative.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tyrone Slothrop Target entity description: Tyrone Slothrop is the paranoid, womanizing American lieutenant at the center of Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose bizarre connections to V-2 rocket strikes drive much of the book’s sprawling, surreal narrative.
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A.
Tommy Atkins
Tommy Atkins is a widely grown commercial mango cultivar known for its attractive color, long shelf life, and firm, fibrous flesh.
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B.
Thomas Knowlton
Thomas Knowlton was a Continental Army officer and early American war hero, best known for leading an elite reconnaissance unit known as Knowlton's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Marshall Murdock
Marshall Murdock is a duplicitous U.S. government official in the film "Rambo: First Blood Part II" who oversees and ultimately betrays John Rambo during a covert mission.
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D.
John Pelham
John Pelham was a Confederate artillery officer in the American Civil War, renowned for his daring and effective command of horse artillery.
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E.
Nat Hickey
Nat Hickey was an early professional basketball player and coach best known for briefly appearing in an NBA game at age 45, making him the oldest player in league history.
- 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_69ab4c3e070c8190b78d3d2c005876dd |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abe0b3d20881908cd4f1b465b504af |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:24 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b0560885688190b5bb51f40d555c4d |
completed | March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b0638095b48190b3d7afa5eeef3e7a |
completed | March 10, 2026, 6:31 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b063edf4ac8190bbcd430c8b584c95 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 6:33 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:10 p.m.