Triple
T10371609
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Captain Benjamin L. Willard |
E244396
|
entity |
| Predicate | target |
P860
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Colonel Walter E. Kurtz |
E243111
|
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: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz | Statement: [Captain Benjamin L. Willard, target, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz Context triple: [Captain Benjamin L. Willard, target, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz]
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A.
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
chosen
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is the enigmatic, rogue U.S. Army Special Forces officer who becomes a godlike, tyrannical figure in the Cambodian jungle in Francis Ford Coppola’s film *Apocalypse Now*.
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B.
Chief O'Hara
Chief O'Hara is a recurring Disney comics character who serves as the bumbling but well-meaning police chief often assisted by Mickey Mouse in solving crimes.
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C.
Colonel Weber
Colonel Weber is a high-ranking U.S. Army officer in the science fiction film "Arrival," responsible for overseeing the military response to the alien visitation and coordinating with linguist Louise Banks.
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D.
Colonel McCormick
Colonel McCormick was a powerful American newspaper publisher and longtime editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, known for his conservative political influence in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Colonel Lloyd
Colonel Lloyd is a central fictional character in the "Little Colonel" series, portrayed as a proud, aristocratic Southern gentleman whose relationship with his granddaughter drives much of the stories’ drama and sentiment.
- 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_69d381b3e328819094b23b8edcd29b5a |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4e97ed09c8190a3627aa7b5eea62f |
completed | April 7, 2026, 11:24 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d7956469988190b5a9b2dfe062379f |
completed | April 9, 2026, 12:02 p.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:01 p.m.