Triple

T9113330
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pip Torrens E218658 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Herr Starr in Preacher
Herr Starr in *Preacher* is a ruthless, disfigured high-ranking operative of the secret organization The Grail, serving as one of the series’ primary antagonists.
E779253 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: Herr Starr in Preacher | Statement: [Pip Torrens, portrayed, Herr Starr in Preacher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herr Starr in Preacher
Context triple: [Pip Torrens, portrayed, Herr Starr in Preacher]
  • A. Preacher
    Preacher is a darkly comic supernatural drama television series based on the Vertigo comic book of the same name, following a conflicted small-town preacher who gains extraordinary powers and embarks on a violent, bizarre quest to find God.
  • B. The Reverend
    "The Reverend" is a Christian clerical honorific commonly used to address or refer to ordained ministers or members of the clergy.
  • C. Father Damien
    Father Damien was a 19th-century Belgian Catholic priest renowned for his selfless ministry to people with Hansen’s disease (leprosy) in the isolated Hawaiian settlement of Kalaupapa, where he ultimately died of the disease himself.
  • D. The Preacher
    "The Preacher" is a classic hard bop jazz composition by pianist and bandleader Horace Silver, known for its catchy, gospel-inflected melody and enduring popularity in the jazz repertoire.
  • E. The Preacher
    The Preacher is a central character in the 1972 Western film "Buck and the Preacher," portrayed as a crafty, sharp-witted con man who becomes an unlikely ally in defending freed slaves from violent oppressors.
  • 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: Herr Starr in Preacher
Triple: [Pip Torrens, portrayed, Herr Starr in Preacher]
Generated description
Herr Starr in *Preacher* is a ruthless, disfigured high-ranking operative of the secret organization The Grail, serving as one of the series’ primary antagonists.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herr Starr in Preacher
Target entity description: Herr Starr in *Preacher* is a ruthless, disfigured high-ranking operative of the secret organization The Grail, serving as one of the series’ primary antagonists.
  • A. Preacher
    Preacher is a darkly comic supernatural drama television series based on the Vertigo comic book of the same name, following a conflicted small-town preacher who gains extraordinary powers and embarks on a violent, bizarre quest to find God.
  • B. The Reverend
    "The Reverend" is a Christian clerical honorific commonly used to address or refer to ordained ministers or members of the clergy.
  • C. Father Damien
    Father Damien was a 19th-century Belgian Catholic priest renowned for his selfless ministry to people with Hansen’s disease (leprosy) in the isolated Hawaiian settlement of Kalaupapa, where he ultimately died of the disease himself.
  • D. The Preacher
    "The Preacher" is a classic hard bop jazz composition by pianist and bandleader Horace Silver, known for its catchy, gospel-inflected melody and enduring popularity in the jazz repertoire.
  • E. The Preacher
    The Preacher is a central character in the 1972 Western film "Buck and the Preacher," portrayed as a crafty, sharp-witted con man who becomes an unlikely ally in defending freed slaves from violent oppressors.
  • 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_69ca83dc94ac8190b9ef42684d36ff39 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca84b0a048190964f560f78e27cce completed April 1, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0305eb6e081908edba0ddab25e209 completed April 3, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d032eb2e708190b2d265ad7b49d084 completed April 3, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0337057048190af062152688599a1 completed April 3, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:16 p.m.