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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.