Triple

T2902969
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gravity’s Rainbow E62692 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Pointsman
Pointsman is a central character in Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," a behaviorist psychologist whose coldly experimental approach to human subjects reflects the book’s themes of control, paranoia, and dehumanization.
E309694 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: Pointsman | Statement: [Gravity’s Rainbow, character, Pointsman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pointsman
Context triple: [Gravity’s Rainbow, character, Pointsman]
  • A. Stakeout
    "Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
  • B. The Capital Punisher
    The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • C. Homicide Squad
    The Homicide Squad is a specialized New York City Police Department unit dedicated to investigating and solving murder cases.
  • D. The Jailer
    The Jailer is the central villain of World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, an ancient ruler of the Maw who seeks to unmake the cosmos and reshape reality to his will.
  • E. Nightcrawler
    Nightcrawler is a 2014 neo-noir thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an amoral crime videographer prowling Los Angeles for sensational footage.
  • 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: Pointsman
Triple: [Gravity’s Rainbow, character, Pointsman]
Generated description
Pointsman is a central character in Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," a behaviorist psychologist whose coldly experimental approach to human subjects reflects the book’s themes of control, paranoia, and dehumanization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pointsman
Target entity description: Pointsman is a central character in Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," a behaviorist psychologist whose coldly experimental approach to human subjects reflects the book’s themes of control, paranoia, and dehumanization.
  • A. Stakeout
    "Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
  • B. The Capital Punisher
    The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • C. Homicide Squad
    The Homicide Squad is a specialized New York City Police Department unit dedicated to investigating and solving murder cases.
  • D. The Jailer
    The Jailer is the central villain of World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, an ancient ruler of the Maw who seeks to unmake the cosmos and reshape reality to his will.
  • E. Nightcrawler
    Nightcrawler is a 2014 neo-noir thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an amoral crime videographer prowling Los Angeles for sensational footage.
  • 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.