Triple

T6270892
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Day Late and a Dollar Short E140530 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Cecil Price
Cecil Price is a character in Terry McMillan’s novel "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," involved in the complex family dynamics and personal struggles that drive the story.
E582961 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: Cecil Price | Statement: [A Day Late and a Dollar Short, featuresCharacter, Cecil Price]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil Price
Context triple: [A Day Late and a Dollar Short, featuresCharacter, Cecil Price]
  • A. Cecil Poynton
    Cecil Poynton was an English footballer and long-serving full-back for Tottenham Hotspur during the early 20th century.
  • B. Cecil Clementi
    Cecil Clementi was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong and later as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements in the early 20th century.
  • C. Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker was a distinguished English character actor known for his suave, often pompous roles in mid-20th-century British and Hollywood films.
  • D. Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Kellaway was a South African-born character actor known for his warm, avuncular screen presence in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
  • E. Cecil Staton
    Cecil Staton is an American academic administrator and former politician who served as a Georgia state senator and later as chancellor of East Carolina University.
  • 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: Cecil Price
Triple: [A Day Late and a Dollar Short, featuresCharacter, Cecil Price]
Generated description
Cecil Price is a character in Terry McMillan’s novel "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," involved in the complex family dynamics and personal struggles that drive the story.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil Price
Target entity description: Cecil Price is a character in Terry McMillan’s novel "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," involved in the complex family dynamics and personal struggles that drive the story.
  • A. Cecil Poynton
    Cecil Poynton was an English footballer and long-serving full-back for Tottenham Hotspur during the early 20th century.
  • B. Cecil Clementi
    Cecil Clementi was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong and later as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements in the early 20th century.
  • C. Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker was a distinguished English character actor known for his suave, often pompous roles in mid-20th-century British and Hollywood films.
  • D. Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Kellaway was a South African-born character actor known for his warm, avuncular screen presence in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
  • E. Cecil Staton
    Cecil Staton is an American academic administrator and former politician who served as a Georgia state senator and later as chancellor of East Carolina University.
  • 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_69c008cabc4081909723e2547c9d6cc0 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063bb340c8190ab81b249cefa91ca completed March 22, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c519404dbc8190850f7874d2be51b5 completed March 26, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c51dfe50c4819084c43ca4d6cced35 completed March 26, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c58d97bf808190a2f8f101cf46a16b completed March 26, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.