Triple

T467649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish E8483 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
E114086 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: Rob McKenna | Statement: [So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, hasCharacter, Rob McKenna]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rob McKenna
Context triple: [So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, hasCharacter, Rob McKenna]
  • A. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • B. Tim McClelland
    Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
  • C. Kevin O'Connor
    Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
  • D. Michael Callaghan
    Michael Callaghan is one of the children of former UK Prime Minister James Callaghan.
  • E. Richard McCreery
    Richard McCreery was a British Army general who commanded the Eighth Army in the final stages of the Italian Campaign during the Second World War.
  • 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: Rob McKenna
Triple: [So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, hasCharacter, Rob McKenna]
Generated description
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rob McKenna
Target entity description: Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
  • A. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • B. Tim McClelland
    Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
  • C. Kevin O'Connor
    Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
  • D. Michael Callaghan
    Michael Callaghan is one of the children of former UK Prime Minister James Callaghan.
  • E. Richard McCreery
    Richard McCreery was a British Army general who commanded the Eighth Army in the final stages of the Italian Campaign during the Second World War.
  • 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_69a2e7f3aeb48190a19453e3a043f486 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2efd9bea081909ee782840f3da12b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac16eebaa48190acb66cb50c02ed7f completed March 7, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac1787a9ac81908f032cd893d3efe8 completed March 7, 2026, 12:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac1807aa388190ad2910966c9d1b04 completed March 7, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.