Triple
T7217575
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Captain Benjamin L. Willard |
E149573
|
entity |
| Predicate | enemy |
P4567
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Colonel Walter E. Kurtz |
E243111
|
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: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz | Statement: [Captain Benjamin L. Willard, enemy, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz Context triple: [Captain Benjamin L. Willard, enemy, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz]
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A.
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
chosen
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is the enigmatic, rogue U.S. Army Special Forces officer who becomes a godlike, tyrannical figure in the Cambodian jungle in Francis Ford Coppola’s film *Apocalypse Now*.
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B.
Colonel Weber
Colonel Weber is a high-ranking U.S. Army officer in the science fiction film "Arrival," responsible for overseeing the military response to the alien visitation and coordinating with linguist Louise Banks.
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C.
Colonel McCormick
Colonel McCormick was a powerful American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his conservative political influence in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Colonel Strong Vincent
Colonel Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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E.
Colonel Nicholson
Colonel Nicholson is the rigid, duty-bound British officer at the center of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," whose obsession with military discipline leads to morally ambiguous collaboration with his captors.
- 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_69c687eca814819095abb52316b1af80 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e99170d88190b1aef326a7d81134 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:33 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7cbfb46388190992cc98039e71748 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 12:39 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:53 p.m.