Triple

T9914677
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donovan's Brain E185837 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Patrick Cory
Patrick Cory is the scientist protagonist in the science fiction novel "Donovan's Brain," known for preserving and communicating with a disembodied brain.
E829716 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: Patrick Cory | Statement: [Donovan's Brain, hasCharacter, Patrick Cory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Cory
Context triple: [Donovan's Brain, hasCharacter, Patrick Cory]
  • A. Timothy O'Leary
    Timothy O'Leary is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably shared with the more widely recognized cultural figure Timothy Leary, though specific distinguishing details about him are not well documented.
  • B. Patrick Lucey
    Patrick Lucey was an American politician and former governor of Wisconsin who later ran for vice president as an independent in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
  • C. Calvin O’Keefe
    Calvin O’Keefe is a kind, intuitive, and athletic teenage boy who joins Meg and Charles Wallace Murry on their interdimensional quest in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel "A Wrinkle in Time."
  • D. Patrick Sullivan
    Patrick Sullivan is a distinguished member of the Sullivan family recognized for his prominence and contributions associated with the family name.
  • E. Matthew Holworthy
    Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist best known for endowing the Holworthy Professorship of English Law at the University of Cambridge.
  • 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: Patrick Cory
Triple: [Donovan's Brain, hasCharacter, Patrick Cory]
Generated description
Patrick Cory is the scientist protagonist in the science fiction novel "Donovan's Brain," known for preserving and communicating with a disembodied brain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Cory
Target entity description: Patrick Cory is the scientist protagonist in the science fiction novel "Donovan's Brain," known for preserving and communicating with a disembodied brain.
  • A. Timothy O'Leary
    Timothy O'Leary is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably shared with the more widely recognized cultural figure Timothy Leary, though specific distinguishing details about him are not well documented.
  • B. Patrick Lucey
    Patrick Lucey was an American politician and former governor of Wisconsin who later ran for vice president as an independent in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
  • C. Calvin O’Keefe
    Calvin O’Keefe is a kind, intuitive, and athletic teenage boy who joins Meg and Charles Wallace Murry on their interdimensional quest in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel "A Wrinkle in Time."
  • D. Patrick Sullivan
    Patrick Sullivan is a distinguished member of the Sullivan family recognized for his prominence and contributions associated with the family name.
  • E. Matthew Holworthy
    Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist best known for endowing the Holworthy Professorship of English Law at the University of Cambridge.
  • 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_69ca829b45f481909040f7b99a1976ed completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb53ba1ac8190ba655133b81596d7 completed April 2, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d20dd82edc8190b405a3969864af77 completed April 5, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d20ed1f69c819099faa881a9a4368d completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d212e3b864819092b8464f5a5ab696 completed April 5, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:41 p.m.