Triple

T4123350
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tortilla Flat E92664 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Big Joe Portagee
Big Joe Portagee is a colorful, hard-drinking paisano and one of the central members of the bohemian friend group in John Steinbeck’s novel "Tortilla Flat."
E416337 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: Big Joe Portagee | Statement: [Tortilla Flat, mainCharacter, Big Joe Portagee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Big Joe Portagee
Context triple: [Tortilla Flat, mainCharacter, Big Joe Portagee]
  • A. Big Joe
    Big Joe is the official mascot of the Canadian Football League’s Ottawa Redblacks, typically depicted as a lumberjack symbolizing the city’s logging heritage.
  • B. Whitey Marsh
    Whitey Marsh is the tough, streetwise orphan who becomes the central reformed youth in the classic 1938 film "Boys Town."
  • C. Brown Jackson
    Brown Jackson is the hyphenated family name of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
  • D. Rollo Lee
    Rollo Lee is the bumbling yet well-meaning zoo manager played by John Cleese in the British comedy film "Fierce Creatures."
  • E. Ray Blanton
    Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
  • 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: Big Joe Portagee
Triple: [Tortilla Flat, mainCharacter, Big Joe Portagee]
Generated description
Big Joe Portagee is a colorful, hard-drinking paisano and one of the central members of the bohemian friend group in John Steinbeck’s novel "Tortilla Flat."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Big Joe Portagee
Target entity description: Big Joe Portagee is a colorful, hard-drinking paisano and one of the central members of the bohemian friend group in John Steinbeck’s novel "Tortilla Flat."
  • A. Big Joe
    Big Joe is the official mascot of the Canadian Football League’s Ottawa Redblacks, typically depicted as a lumberjack symbolizing the city’s logging heritage.
  • B. Whitey Marsh
    Whitey Marsh is the tough, streetwise orphan who becomes the central reformed youth in the classic 1938 film "Boys Town."
  • C. Brown Jackson
    Brown Jackson is the hyphenated family name of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
  • D. Rollo Lee
    Rollo Lee is the bumbling yet well-meaning zoo manager played by John Cleese in the British comedy film "Fierce Creatures."
  • E. Ray Blanton
    Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
  • 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_69aed9685f70819086932777aec8d959 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af020728a08190a50a16b40690cbce completed March 9, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b576b405548190affdd8bb108995b1 completed March 14, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b577653214819093396a8601e52245 completed March 14, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b57b90cb308190ba102f999795829c completed March 14, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:41 p.m.