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]
  • A. Tommy Atkins
    Tommy Atkins is a widely grown commercial mango cultivar known for its attractive color, long shelf life, and firm, fibrous flesh.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A. Tommy Atkins
    Tommy Atkins is a widely grown commercial mango cultivar known for its attractive color, long shelf life, and firm, fibrous flesh.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.