Triple

T5186914
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Water Dancer E117053 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hiram Walker
Hiram Walker is the magically gifted, formerly enslaved protagonist of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," whose powers are tied to memory and the legacy of slavery.
E501887 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: Hiram Walker | Statement: [The Water Dancer, mainCharacter, Hiram Walker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiram Walker
Context triple: [The Water Dancer, mainCharacter, Hiram Walker]
  • A. James Anthony Bailey
    James Anthony Bailey was a prominent American circus impresario and showman best known for co-founding the famed Barnum & Bailey Circus, which later became part of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
  • B. Adolphus Busch
    Adolphus Busch was a German-American brewer and co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, best known for helping create and popularize Budweiser beer in the United States.
  • C. John C. Pemberton
    John C. Pemberton was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding Southern forces at the Siege of Vicksburg.
  • D. Armand Hammer
    Armand Hammer was an American industrialist and longtime head of Occidental Petroleum, known for his extensive business dealings with the Soviet Union and prominent art collecting.
  • E. Henry Overholt
    Henry Overholt was a member of the prominent Overholt family connected to the historic West Overton industrial and distilling complex in Pennsylvania.
  • 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: Hiram Walker
Triple: [The Water Dancer, mainCharacter, Hiram Walker]
Generated description
Hiram Walker is the magically gifted, formerly enslaved protagonist of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," whose powers are tied to memory and the legacy of slavery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiram Walker
Target entity description: Hiram Walker is the magically gifted, formerly enslaved protagonist of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel "The Water Dancer," whose powers are tied to memory and the legacy of slavery.
  • A. James Anthony Bailey
    James Anthony Bailey was a prominent American circus impresario and showman best known for co-founding the famed Barnum & Bailey Circus, which later became part of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
  • B. Adolphus Busch
    Adolphus Busch was a German-American brewer and co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, best known for helping create and popularize Budweiser beer in the United States.
  • C. John C. Pemberton
    John C. Pemberton was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding Southern forces at the Siege of Vicksburg.
  • D. Armand Hammer
    Armand Hammer was an American industrialist and longtime head of Occidental Petroleum, known for his extensive business dealings with the Soviet Union and prominent art collecting.
  • E. Henry Overholt
    Henry Overholt was a member of the prominent Overholt family connected to the historic West Overton industrial and distilling complex in Pennsylvania.
  • 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_69bd44620ff48190bcac01782107a397 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd79c3e9e08190848be4208b72f310 completed March 20, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bee08807748190ae8f34a6e8875c15 completed March 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bee66191dc8190847fe13f2cda0000 completed March 21, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bee6e8bbcc819094f5f04743eb4013 completed March 21, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:46 p.m.