Triple

T7354391
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Horizontal Lieutenant E169585 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object 2nd Lt. Merle Wye
2nd Lt. Merle Wye is a fictional junior Army officer who serves as the central character in the military comedy film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
E658430 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: 2nd Lt. Merle Wye | Statement: [The Horizontal Lieutenant, featuresCharacter, 2nd Lt. Merle Wye]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2nd Lt. Merle Wye
Context triple: [The Horizontal Lieutenant, featuresCharacter, 2nd Lt. Merle Wye]
  • A. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
    Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is the introspective, nature-obsessed protagonist of Knut Hamsun’s novel *Pan*, whose turbulent love affairs and retreat into the Norwegian wilderness explore themes of passion, isolation, and psychological complexity.
  • B. Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
    Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • C. Sergeant Daniel Bissell
    Sergeant Daniel Bissell was an American Revolutionary War soldier and spy for the Continental Army who conducted dangerous intelligence missions behind British lines.
  • D. Corporal Frank S. Scott
    Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
  • E. Sgt. John M. Stryker
    Sgt. John M. Stryker is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Marine sergeant portrayed by John Wayne, known for his strict discipline and leadership during World War II in the film "Sands of Iwo Jima."
  • 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: 2nd Lt. Merle Wye
Triple: [The Horizontal Lieutenant, featuresCharacter, 2nd Lt. Merle Wye]
Generated description
2nd Lt. Merle Wye is a fictional junior Army officer who serves as the central character in the military comedy film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2nd Lt. Merle Wye
Target entity description: 2nd Lt. Merle Wye is a fictional junior Army officer who serves as the central character in the military comedy film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
  • A. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
    Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is the introspective, nature-obsessed protagonist of Knut Hamsun’s novel *Pan*, whose turbulent love affairs and retreat into the Norwegian wilderness explore themes of passion, isolation, and psychological complexity.
  • B. Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
    Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • C. Sergeant Daniel Bissell
    Sergeant Daniel Bissell was an American Revolutionary War soldier and spy for the Continental Army who conducted dangerous intelligence missions behind British lines.
  • D. Corporal Frank S. Scott
    Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
  • E. Sgt. John M. Stryker
    Sgt. John M. Stryker is a tough, battle-hardened U.S. Marine sergeant portrayed by John Wayne, known for his strict discipline and leadership during World War II in the film "Sands of Iwo Jima."
  • 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_69c68a59f2288190877ca15c19b1e822 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f10e71fc81909307ca39a61142d3 completed March 27, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7faa25960819084ecb6dbf9369ba5 completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7fc2c90488190bd3aa5bf72606723 completed March 28, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7fcb2605c819080697768d00c77d7 completed March 28, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:05 p.m.