Triple

T8842843
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Normal Heart E210429 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Tommy Boatwright
Tommy Boatwright is a compassionate, Southern-born hospital volunteer and one of the key gay activist characters in Larry Kramer's AIDS-crisis drama "The Normal Heart."
E761026 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: Tommy Boatwright | Statement: [The Normal Heart, hasCharacter, Tommy Boatwright]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tommy Boatwright
Context triple: [The Normal Heart, hasCharacter, Tommy Boatwright]
  • A. Tommy Williams
    Tommy Williams is a young inmate in the film "The Shawshank Redemption" whose testimony becomes pivotal to the fate of fellow prisoner Andy Dufresne.
  • B. Tommy Williams
    Tommy Williams was a jazz double bassist known for his work in the 1960s, including collaborations with leading artists such as Stan Getz.
  • C. Bill Pritchard
    Bill Pritchard was a prominent Canadian socialist and labor activist known for his leadership in early 20th-century left-wing politics and his involvement in the labor movement.
  • D. Bobby Steele
    Bobby Steele is an American punk rock guitarist best known for his work with the horror punk band the Misfits and later as founder of The Undead.
  • E. Norm Waitt Jr.
    Norm Waitt Jr. is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the computer manufacturer Gateway, Inc.
  • 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: Tommy Boatwright
Triple: [The Normal Heart, hasCharacter, Tommy Boatwright]
Generated description
Tommy Boatwright is a compassionate, Southern-born hospital volunteer and one of the key gay activist characters in Larry Kramer's AIDS-crisis drama "The Normal Heart."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tommy Boatwright
Target entity description: Tommy Boatwright is a compassionate, Southern-born hospital volunteer and one of the key gay activist characters in Larry Kramer's AIDS-crisis drama "The Normal Heart."
  • A. Tommy Williams
    Tommy Williams was a jazz double bassist known for his work in the 1960s, including collaborations with leading artists such as Stan Getz.
  • B. Tommy Williams
    Tommy Williams is a young inmate in the film "The Shawshank Redemption" whose testimony becomes pivotal to the fate of fellow prisoner Andy Dufresne.
  • C. Bill Pritchard
    Bill Pritchard was a prominent Canadian socialist and labor activist known for his leadership in early 20th-century left-wing politics and his involvement in the labor movement.
  • D. Bobby Steele
    Bobby Steele is an American punk rock guitarist best known for his work with the horror punk band the Misfits and later as founder of The Undead.
  • E. Norm Waitt Jr.
    Norm Waitt Jr. is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the computer manufacturer Gateway, Inc.
  • 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_69ca838967bc8190b46c3c80a2887ea4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc608946cc8190bed3c340ba303b9c completed April 1, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf89a41a2c8190b69e5a1b157f9325 completed April 3, 2026, 9:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf8b6d7a008190ae02f525b903619b completed April 3, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf8be7fa488190a5eb6d3f26718e46 completed April 3, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:48 p.m.