Triple

T10159471
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kurt Vonnegut E233850 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut that critiques war, the prison-industrial complex, and American society through the darkly comic reflections of a Vietnam veteran turned college professor.
E845171 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: Hocus Pocus | Statement: [Kurt Vonnegut, notableWork, Hocus Pocus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hocus Pocus
Context triple: [Kurt Vonnegut, notableWork, Hocus Pocus]
  • A. Hocus Pocus
    Hocus Pocus is a 1993 fantasy-comedy film about three resurrected witches wreaking havoc in modern-day Salem, which has since become a cult Halloween classic.
  • B. The Nightmare Before Christmas
    The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film that follows Jack Skellington from Halloween Town as he attempts to take over Christmas, blending gothic visuals with whimsical storytelling.
  • C. 13 Ghosts
    13 Ghosts is a 1960 supernatural horror film directed by William Castle, known for its gimmicky "Illusion-O" ghost viewer and its story of a family inheriting a haunted house filled with twelve malevolent spirits.
  • D. Halloweentown
    Halloweentown is a 1998 Disney Channel fantasy film about a young girl who discovers she comes from a family of witches and must help save a secret magical town from an evil force.
  • E. Beetlejuice
    Beetlejuice is a 1988 dark fantasy-comedy film directed by Tim Burton, known for its quirky gothic style and the mischievous bio-exorcist played by Michael Keaton.
  • 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: Hocus Pocus
Triple: [Kurt Vonnegut, notableWork, Hocus Pocus]
Generated description
Hocus Pocus is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut that critiques war, the prison-industrial complex, and American society through the darkly comic reflections of a Vietnam veteran turned college professor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hocus Pocus
Target entity description: Hocus Pocus is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut that critiques war, the prison-industrial complex, and American society through the darkly comic reflections of a Vietnam veteran turned college professor.
  • A. Hocus Pocus
    Hocus Pocus is a 1993 fantasy-comedy film about three resurrected witches wreaking havoc in modern-day Salem, which has since become a cult Halloween classic.
  • B. The Nightmare Before Christmas
    The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film that follows Jack Skellington from Halloween Town as he attempts to take over Christmas, blending gothic visuals with whimsical storytelling.
  • C. 13 Ghosts
    13 Ghosts is a 1960 supernatural horror film directed by William Castle, known for its gimmicky "Illusion-O" ghost viewer and its story of a family inheriting a haunted house filled with twelve malevolent spirits.
  • D. Halloweentown
    Halloweentown is a 1998 Disney Channel fantasy film about a young girl who discovers she comes from a family of witches and must help save a secret magical town from an evil force.
  • E. Beetlejuice
    Beetlejuice is a 1988 dark fantasy-comedy film directed by Tim Burton, known for its quirky gothic style and the mischievous bio-exorcist played by Michael Keaton.
  • 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_69ca848e80748190b91d1e04d35512c7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdec56d944819081bc6ea36c905ba2 completed April 2, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d300b7b3108190a8e7581193c322be completed April 6, 2026, 12:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d302537a548190b211727dd124cba6 completed April 6, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d3033245448190bcc802b7dbd274fc completed April 6, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:09 p.m.