Triple
T3353731
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ian McShane |
E70555
|
entity |
| Predicate | characterPortrayed |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Mr. Wednesday
Mr. Wednesday is a mysterious, charismatic con man who is actually the Norse god Odin in disguise in Neil Gaiman’s novel and its television adaptation American Gods.
|
E351734
|
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: Mr. Wednesday | Statement: [Ian McShane, characterPortrayed, Mr. Wednesday]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Wednesday Context triple: [Ian McShane, characterPortrayed, Mr. Wednesday]
-
A.
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is a prose work by Walt Whitman that blends memoir, nature writing, and reflections on the American Civil War and 19th-century life.
-
B.
The Given Day
The Given Day is a historical novel by Dennis Lehane set in post-World War I Boston, intertwining the lives of a working-class Irish-American family and an African-American ballplayer against a backdrop of social unrest and political upheaval.
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C.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
-
D.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
-
E.
The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
- 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: Mr. Wednesday Triple: [Ian McShane, characterPortrayed, Mr. Wednesday]
Generated description
Mr. Wednesday is a mysterious, charismatic con man who is actually the Norse god Odin in disguise in Neil Gaiman’s novel and its television adaptation American Gods.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Wednesday Target entity description: Mr. Wednesday is a mysterious, charismatic con man who is actually the Norse god Odin in disguise in Neil Gaiman’s novel and its television adaptation American Gods.
-
A.
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is a prose work by Walt Whitman that blends memoir, nature writing, and reflections on the American Civil War and 19th-century life.
-
B.
The Given Day
The Given Day is a historical novel by Dennis Lehane set in post-World War I Boston, intertwining the lives of a working-class Irish-American family and an African-American ballplayer against a backdrop of social unrest and political upheaval.
-
C.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
-
D.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
-
E.
The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
- 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_69ad85a4ef7c8190a29e2bbd6fa454e4 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb24036848190bac779d17dfdce3b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:30 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b325373a1c8190b26d883e2f0dd92b |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b329016c7c819098b494ae5d712036 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:58 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b329aca800819091f287a2f00557a2 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 9:01 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.