Triple

T4506396
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sandman E101340 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Hob Gadling
Hob Gadling is an immortal man in Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman" who periodically meets Dream across the centuries, serving as a lens on human history, change, and friendship.
E447868 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: Hob Gadling | Statement: [The Sandman, hasCharacter, Hob Gadling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hob Gadling
Context triple: [The Sandman, hasCharacter, Hob Gadling]
  • A. Simon Dunsdon
    Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
  • B. Jimmy Hogarth
    Jimmy Hogarth is a British record producer and songwriter known for his work with prominent artists across pop, rock, and soul music.
  • C. Edmund Breon
    Edmund Breon was a Scottish character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in British and American films, particularly during the silent and early sound eras.
  • D. Freddie Threepwood
    Freddie Threepwood is a recurring comic character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, known as Lord Emsworth’s somewhat scatterbrained but well-meaning younger son.
  • E. Bilbo Gardner
    Bilbo Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, a member of Samwise Gamgee’s family in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
  • 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: Hob Gadling
Triple: [The Sandman, hasCharacter, Hob Gadling]
Generated description
Hob Gadling is an immortal man in Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman" who periodically meets Dream across the centuries, serving as a lens on human history, change, and friendship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hob Gadling
Target entity description: Hob Gadling is an immortal man in Neil Gaiman’s "The Sandman" who periodically meets Dream across the centuries, serving as a lens on human history, change, and friendship.
  • A. Simon Dunsdon
    Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
  • B. Jimmy Hogarth
    Jimmy Hogarth is a British record producer and songwriter known for his work with prominent artists across pop, rock, and soul music.
  • C. Edmund Breon
    Edmund Breon was a Scottish character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in British and American films, particularly during the silent and early sound eras.
  • D. Freddie Threepwood
    Freddie Threepwood is a recurring comic character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, known as Lord Emsworth’s somewhat scatterbrained but well-meaning younger son.
  • E. Bilbo Gardner
    Bilbo Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire, a member of Samwise Gamgee’s family in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
  • 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_69bd43d175248190894dc58b5b395c26 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd56ff78748190bb667e70c69dc817 completed March 20, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd6f9d05d08190bde36e7d614a0e2e completed March 20, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd705e0e848190a73e7ddb569f0e37 completed March 20, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd71b41664819091bd4f75d4634943 completed March 20, 2026, 4:11 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:01 p.m.