Triple

T3198017
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Platoon E66978 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes
Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes is a hardened, battle-scarred Vietnam War squad leader and one of the central, morally ambiguous figures in Oliver Stone’s film "Platoon."
E338606 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: Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes | Statement: [Platoon, character, Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes
Context triple: [Platoon, character, Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes]
  • A. Sergeant Joe Bomowski
    Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
  • B. Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
    Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
  • C. Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
    Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
  • D. Corporal Miller
    Corporal Miller is a skilled explosives expert and member of the commando team in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone."
  • E. Sergeant Ian McKay
    Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
  • 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: Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes
Triple: [Platoon, character, Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes]
Generated description
Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes is a hardened, battle-scarred Vietnam War squad leader and one of the central, morally ambiguous figures in Oliver Stone’s film "Platoon."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes
Target entity description: Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes is a hardened, battle-scarred Vietnam War squad leader and one of the central, morally ambiguous figures in Oliver Stone’s film "Platoon."
  • A. Sergeant Joe Bomowski
    Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
  • B. Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
    Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
  • C. Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
    Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
  • D. Corporal Miller
    Corporal Miller is a skilled explosives expert and member of the commando team in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone."
  • E. Sergeant Ian McKay
    Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
  • 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_69ad8588ba18819086a10951c32ecb80 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada7192994819084817307065a25e2 completed March 8, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2621d3bcc8190abf84310bc118757 completed March 12, 2026, 6:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b264c2b3e88190bdfb33f12c318c70 completed March 12, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2689419808190adb9b69bf3185daf completed March 12, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.