Triple

T3315245
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Names E69665 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Owen Brademas
Owen Brademas is a central, introspective American academic whose obsessive quest for meaning and order drives much of the psychological and philosophical tension in Don DeLillo’s novel "The Names."
 E346543 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: Owen Brademas | Statement: [The Names, character, Owen Brademas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Owen Brademas
Context triple: [The Names, character, Owen Brademas]
  • A. Julian Dennison
    Julian Dennison is a New Zealand actor best known for his breakout role in "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" and his performance in "Deadpool 2."
  • B. Julian Burnside
    Julian Burnside is an Australian barrister and human rights advocate renowned for his work defending refugees and speaking out on civil liberties and social justice.
  • C. Sam De Grasse
    Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
  • D. Conrad Jarrett
    Conrad Jarrett is the troubled teenage protagonist of Judith Guest’s novel and the film "Ordinary People," struggling with survivor’s guilt, depression, and family dysfunction after his brother’s death.
  • E. Johnny St. Cyr
    Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
  • 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: Owen Brademas
Triple: [The Names, character, Owen Brademas]
Generated description
Owen Brademas is a central, introspective American academic whose obsessive quest for meaning and order drives much of the psychological and philosophical tension in Don DeLillo’s novel "The Names."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Owen Brademas
Target entity description: Owen Brademas is a central, introspective American academic whose obsessive quest for meaning and order drives much of the psychological and philosophical tension in Don DeLillo’s novel "The Names."
  • A. Julian Dennison
    Julian Dennison is a New Zealand actor best known for his breakout role in "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" and his performance in "Deadpool 2."
  • B. Julian Burnside
    Julian Burnside is an Australian barrister and human rights advocate renowned for his work defending refugees and speaking out on civil liberties and social justice.
  • C. Sam De Grasse
    Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
  • D. Conrad Jarrett
    Conrad Jarrett is the troubled teenage protagonist of Judith Guest’s novel and the film "Ordinary People," struggling with survivor’s guilt, depression, and family dysfunction after his brother’s death.
  • E. Johnny St. Cyr
    Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
  • 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_69ad85a0bb048190a5458d2738012d61 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb110b28081909b366623e3b0783d completed March 8, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2f3fa347481909432bd0178e7ea57 completed March 12, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2faf56ca08190b93486c07d94c08e completed March 12, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b312b902fc819081ec01c3d418fae0 completed March 12, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:11 p.m.