Triple

T8843687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Victor Strand E210449 entity
Predicate firstAppearanceEpisode P16444 FINISHED
Object Cobalt
Cobalt is the episode of Fear the Walking Dead that marks the introduction of the character Victor Strand.
 E760227 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: Cobalt | Statement: [Victor Strand, firstAppearanceEpisode, Cobalt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cobalt
Context triple: [Victor Strand, firstAppearanceEpisode, Cobalt]
  • A. Cobalt
    Cobalt is a small historic mining town in northeastern Ontario, Canada, known for its early 20th-century silver boom and significant role in Canadian mining history.
  • B. Nickel
    Nickel is a chemical element and transition metal known for its hardness, corrosion resistance, and widespread use in alloys and batteries.
  • C. Copper
    Copper is one of the animal mascots created to represent and promote the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
  • D. Copper
    Copper is a period crime drama television series set in 19th-century New York City, created by Tom Fontana and others.
  • E. Zirc
    Zirc is a small Hungarian town in Veszprém County known for its historic Cistercian Abbey and scenic location in the Bakony Mountains.
  • 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: Cobalt
Triple: [Victor Strand, firstAppearanceEpisode, Cobalt]
Generated description
Cobalt is the episode of Fear the Walking Dead that marks the introduction of the character Victor Strand.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cobalt
Target entity description: Cobalt is the episode of Fear the Walking Dead that marks the introduction of the character Victor Strand.
  • A. Cobalt
    Cobalt is a small historic mining town in northeastern Ontario, Canada, known for its early 20th-century silver boom and significant role in Canadian mining history.
  • B. Nickel
    Nickel is a chemical element and transition metal known for its hardness, corrosion resistance, and widespread use in alloys and batteries.
  • C. Copper
    Copper is one of the animal mascots created to represent and promote the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
  • D. Copper
    Copper is a period crime drama television series set in 19th-century New York City, created by Tom Fontana and others.
  • E. Zirc
    Zirc is a small Hungarian town in Veszprém County known for its historic Cistercian Abbey and scenic location in the Bakony Mountains.
  • 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_69cc608a73c88190875409fef79ffc8a completed April 1, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf89ad0a3c8190a2bcf9a106138835 completed April 3, 2026, 9:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf8ac657a48190b01e3f0365105f3c completed April 3, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf8b8849ec8190915fa087b1b46c18 completed April 3, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:48 p.m.