Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Master Harold...and the Boys E757969 entity
Predicate characterRelationship P37304 FINISHED
Object Sam is a Black servant and father figure to Hally
Sam is a central character in Athol Fugard's play "Master Harold"...and the Boys, serving as a Black waiter who provides emotional guidance and paternal care to the white teenager Hally amid the tensions of apartheid-era South Africa.
E1886495 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Sam is a Black servant and father figure to Hally | Statement: [Master Harold...and the Boys, characterRelationship, Sam is a Black servant and father figure to Hally]
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: Sam is a Black servant and father figure to Hally
Triple: [Master Harold...and the Boys, characterRelationship, Sam is a Black servant and father figure to Hally]
Generated description
Sam is a central character in Athol Fugard's play "Master Harold"...and the Boys, serving as a Black waiter who provides emotional guidance and paternal care to the white teenager Hally amid the tensions of apartheid-era South Africa.

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_69f2245a82cc8190a387e7d0118d710b completed April 29, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f6764489c881909618ff635fe6c410 completed May 2, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a26e60fc6bc81909e071621f47bf035 completed June 8, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a26e6e147d081909cd31eda74a95a11 completed June 8, 2026, 3:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a26eabd98e081908d444da8db7f2183 completed June 8, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
Created at: April 29, 2026, 5:42 p.m.