Triple

T581335
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Devil and Tom Walker E15064 entity
Predicate alternateName P39 FINISHED
Object Old Scratch and Tom Walker E15064 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Old Scratch and Tom Walker | Statement: [The Devil and Tom Walker, alternateName, Old Scratch and Tom Walker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Old Scratch and Tom Walker
Context triple: [The Devil and Tom Walker, alternateName, Old Scratch and Tom Walker]
  • A. The Devil and Tom Walker chosen
    The Devil and Tom Walker is a short story by Washington Irving that satirically retells the Faust legend through the tale of a miserly New Englander who makes a fateful bargain with the Devil.
  • B. Headless Horseman
    The Headless Horseman is a legendary ghostly rider who haunts the night in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” terrifying locals as a fearsome, decapitated specter in search of his lost head.
  • C. Rip Van Winkle
    Rip Van Winkle is a classic American short story about a man who mysteriously sleeps through decades in the Catskill Mountains and awakens to a transformed world.
  • D. Young Goodman Brown
    Young Goodman Brown is a classic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of Puritanism, faith, and the nature of evil through a man's disillusioning nighttime journey into a dark forest.
  • E. The Minister’s Black Veil
    The Minister’s Black Veil is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of sin, guilt, and isolation through the mysterious decision of a New England minister to permanently cover his face with a black veil.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b84899881909d5b2b4e67e22d9b completed March 1, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a508a025308190ac35a5e3606de4de completed March 2, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.