Triple

T7630748
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In the Valley of Elah E172752 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hank Deerfield
Hank Deerfield is a stoic, retired military police officer and grieving father who doggedly investigates his soldier son's mysterious disappearance in the film "In the Valley of Elah."
E678361 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: Hank Deerfield | Statement: [In the Valley of Elah, mainCharacter, Hank Deerfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hank Deerfield
Context triple: [In the Valley of Elah, mainCharacter, Hank Deerfield]
  • A. Edmund Fowle
    Edmund Fowle was a colonial-era Massachusetts resident and civic figure after whom the historic Edmund Fowle House in Watertown is named.
  • B. Christian Van Dyke
    Christian Van Dyke is one of the children of legendary American actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
  • C. Montgomery Brewster
    Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
  • D. John Harper
    John Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential New York publishing house that became Harper & Brothers.
  • E. John Harper
    John Harper is a member of the Harper family, known primarily in relation to this familial association.
  • 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: Hank Deerfield
Triple: [In the Valley of Elah, mainCharacter, Hank Deerfield]
Generated description
Hank Deerfield is a stoic, retired military police officer and grieving father who doggedly investigates his soldier son's mysterious disappearance in the film "In the Valley of Elah."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hank Deerfield
Target entity description: Hank Deerfield is a stoic, retired military police officer and grieving father who doggedly investigates his soldier son's mysterious disappearance in the film "In the Valley of Elah."
  • A. Edmund Fowle
    Edmund Fowle was a colonial-era Massachusetts resident and civic figure after whom the historic Edmund Fowle House in Watertown is named.
  • B. Christian Van Dyke
    Christian Van Dyke is one of the children of legendary American actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
  • C. Montgomery Brewster
    Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
  • D. John Harper
    John Harper is a business leader known for helping establish the influential CEO-led association Business Roundtable, which advocates for pro-business public policies in the United States.
  • E. John Harper
    John Harper was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential New York publishing house that became Harper & Brothers.
  • 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_69c699517e348190bd3348b6889200f2 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa85c57c8190acfd33e0c890c2f9 completed March 27, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c870b3984c8190b16a49415556a27d completed March 29, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c871945b8c8190a49d4abaca553668 completed March 29, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c871f6cc5881909a0c65beaf713144 completed March 29, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:56 p.m.