Triple

T10211068
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The King of Torts E242327 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Clay Carter
Clay Carter is the ambitious Washington, D.C. public defender who becomes entangled in mass-tort litigation and moral compromise in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The King of Torts."
E850140 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: Clay Carter | Statement: [The King of Torts, mainCharacter, Clay Carter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clay Carter
Context triple: [The King of Torts, mainCharacter, Clay Carter]
  • A. Tom Clay
    Tom Clay was an American radio DJ and producer best known for his 1971 spoken-word and music montage hit single "What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin and John."
  • B. Ben Raleigh
    Ben Raleigh was an American songwriter known for penning numerous pop hits in the 1950s and 1960s, including songs recorded by artists like The Ronettes and The Partridge Family.
  • C. Taylor Tucky
    "Taylor Tucky" is a colloquial, somewhat pejorative nickname for the city of Taylor, Michigan, evoking associations with rural Kentucky stereotypes.
  • D. Clay Spencer
    Clay Spencer is the hardworking, family-oriented patriarch at the center of the novel and film "Spencer's Mountain," whose character later inspired the father figure in the television series "The Waltons."
  • E. Clayton Hamilton
    Clayton Hamilton was an American drama critic and author known for his influential early 20th-century writings on theater and dramatic literature.
  • 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: Clay Carter
Triple: [The King of Torts, mainCharacter, Clay Carter]
Generated description
Clay Carter is the ambitious Washington, D.C. public defender who becomes entangled in mass-tort litigation and moral compromise in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The King of Torts."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clay Carter
Target entity description: Clay Carter is the ambitious Washington, D.C. public defender who becomes entangled in mass-tort litigation and moral compromise in John Grisham’s legal thriller "The King of Torts."
  • A. Tom Clay
    Tom Clay was an American radio DJ and producer best known for his 1971 spoken-word and music montage hit single "What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin and John."
  • B. Ben Raleigh
    Ben Raleigh was an American songwriter known for penning numerous pop hits in the 1950s and 1960s, including songs recorded by artists like The Ronettes and The Partridge Family.
  • C. Taylor Tucky
    "Taylor Tucky" is a colloquial, somewhat pejorative nickname for the city of Taylor, Michigan, evoking associations with rural Kentucky stereotypes.
  • D. Clay Spencer
    Clay Spencer is the hardworking, family-oriented patriarch at the center of the novel and film "Spencer's Mountain," whose character later inspired the father figure in the television series "The Waltons."
  • E. Clayton Hamilton
    Clayton Hamilton was an American drama critic and author known for his influential early 20th-century writings on theater and dramatic literature.
  • 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_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d3aa22071c819095febd18dd607978 completed April 6, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d652d8088c819084040883f2ab9dc6 completed April 8, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d656a847fc8190af1f3e131e4200b3 completed April 8, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6570d98f881909b9591f9d953eb35 completed April 8, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:01 a.m.