Triple

T32591504
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rocket Boys E833079 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Elsie Hickam
Elsie Hickam is the strong-willed, practical, and emotionally complex mother of Homer Hickam in the memoir and film "Rocket Boys"/"October Sky," embodying both skepticism and quiet support for her son's rocketry dreams.
E2012566 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: Elsie Hickam | Statement: [Rocket Boys, featuresCharacter, Elsie Hickam]
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: Elsie Hickam
Triple: [Rocket Boys, featuresCharacter, Elsie Hickam]
Generated description
Elsie Hickam is the strong-willed, practical, and emotionally complex mother of Homer Hickam in the memoir and film "Rocket Boys"/"October Sky," embodying both skepticism and quiet support for her son's rocketry dreams.

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_69f34929ff648190aded9424aa7564ae completed April 30, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f6c691ce288190abcc586dd488079c completed May 3, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a347bac58f48190958c4bc20ac180ed completed June 18, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a347c29d29c819085157ac0ed98a2f0 completed June 18, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a347d818bf08190b03290203b8ad992 completed June 18, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
Created at: May 1, 2026, 1:05 a.m.