Triple

T9801426
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject That Yellow Bastard E237845 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object John Hartigan
John Hartigan is an aging, morally driven police detective from Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novel arc "That Yellow Bastard," known for his relentless pursuit of a sadistic child predator despite overwhelming personal cost.
E872851 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: John Hartigan | Statement: [That Yellow Bastard, mainCharacter, John Hartigan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hartigan
Context triple: [That Yellow Bastard, mainCharacter, John Hartigan]
  • A. John J. Tominac
    John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
  • B. John Joseph O'Callahan
    John Joseph O'Callahan is an American former ice hockey defenseman best known as a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" team that won gold at Lake Placid.
  • C. John J. Niesz
    John J. Niesz is an American educational administrator who serves as the superintendent of the Bayonne School District in New Jersey.
  • D. Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli
    Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, better known as "Fonzie" or "The Fonz," is a iconic leather-jacket-wearing greaser character from the American television sitcom "Happy Days," celebrated for his cool demeanor and catchphrases.
  • E. John J. Hartnett
    John J. Hartnett is an Australian physicist and cosmologist known for his work in ultra-stable cryogenic sapphire oscillators and his advocacy of young-Earth creationist interpretations of cosmology.
  • 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: John Hartigan
Triple: [That Yellow Bastard, mainCharacter, John Hartigan]
Generated description
John Hartigan is an aging, morally driven police detective from Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novel arc "That Yellow Bastard," known for his relentless pursuit of a sadistic child predator despite overwhelming personal cost.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hartigan
Target entity description: John Hartigan is an aging, morally driven police detective from Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novel arc "That Yellow Bastard," known for his relentless pursuit of a sadistic child predator despite overwhelming personal cost.
  • A. John J. Tominac
    John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
  • B. John Joseph O'Callahan
    John Joseph O'Callahan is an American former ice hockey defenseman best known as a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic "Miracle on Ice" team that won gold at Lake Placid.
  • C. John J. Niesz
    John J. Niesz is an American educational administrator who serves as the superintendent of the Bayonne School District in New Jersey.
  • D. Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli
    Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, better known as "Fonzie" or "The Fonz," is a iconic leather-jacket-wearing greaser character from the American television sitcom "Happy Days," celebrated for his cool demeanor and catchphrases.
  • E. John J. Hartnett
    John J. Hartnett is an Australian physicist and cosmologist known for his work in ultra-stable cryogenic sapphire oscillators and his advocacy of young-Earth creationist interpretations of cosmology.
  • 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_69ca84dd4608819097ff4ed00feca280 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda62a11a88190880e0cce24923b14 completed April 1, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d94aceb7108190beeec78587c04161 completed April 10, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d94c6fa9ac8190819a399754d2bd15 completed April 10, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d953440a508190a50d1897cdbeba03 completed April 10, 2026, 7:45 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:29 p.m.