Triple
T9980217
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries) |
E196430
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ben Mears |
E195227
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Ben Mears | Statement: [Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries), mainCharacter, Ben Mears]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Mears Context triple: [Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries), mainCharacter, Ben Mears]
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A.
Ben Mears
chosen
Ben Mears is a novelist and the protagonist of Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," who returns to his childhood town only to confront a spreading vampire infestation.
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B.
Nathan Dane
Nathan Dane was an American lawyer and statesman best known for drafting the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which shaped the early expansion and governance of the United States.
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C.
George Denbrough
George Denbrough is a young boy from Stephen King's horror novel "It," whose tragic death at the hands of Pennywise the Clown drives much of the story's emotional and narrative conflict.
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D.
Victor Comstock
Victor Comstock is a central character on the 1990s AMC television series "Remember WENN," serving as the idealistic station manager of the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN.
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E.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82efbce081908179b4b9c65096eb |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cdb8b9aca881908a9b5dfd7e0de4ba |
completed | April 2, 2026, 12:30 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d257df420881909edac01b4e331c1e |
completed | April 5, 2026, 12:38 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:49 p.m.