Triple

T10394937
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Men Who Stare at Goats (film) E244986 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object The Men Who Stare at Goats (book)
"The Men Who Stare at Goats" is a non-fiction book by Jon Ronson that investigates the U.S. military’s exploration of paranormal and psychic phenomena within secretive special forces units.
E861594 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: The Men Who Stare at Goats (book) | Statement: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), basedOn, The Men Who Stare at Goats (book)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Men Who Stare at Goats (book)
Context triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), basedOn, The Men Who Stare at Goats (book)]
  • A. The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
    The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 satirical war comedy film about a secret U.S. military unit experimenting with psychic powers, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey.
  • B. The Goat
    "The Goat" is a 1921 silent comedy short film starring Buster Keaton, known for its inventive gags and Keaton’s deadpan physical comedy.
  • C. Small Gods
    Small Gods is a satirical fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett set in his Discworld universe, exploring religion, belief, and institutional power through dark humor and philosophical insight.
  • D. Porcupine Camp
    Porcupine Camp was a key mining settlement that emerged as a central hub during the Porcupine Gold Rush in northern Ontario, Canada.
  • E. The Sick Goat
    "The Sick Goat" is a 17th-century pastoral genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Karel Dujardin, known for its detailed depiction of animals and rural life.
  • 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: The Men Who Stare at Goats (book)
Triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), basedOn, The Men Who Stare at Goats (book)]
Generated description
"The Men Who Stare at Goats" is a non-fiction book by Jon Ronson that investigates the U.S. military’s exploration of paranormal and psychic phenomena within secretive special forces units.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Men Who Stare at Goats (book)
Target entity description: "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is a non-fiction book by Jon Ronson that investigates the U.S. military’s exploration of paranormal and psychic phenomena within secretive special forces units.
  • A. The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
    The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 satirical war comedy film about a secret U.S. military unit experimenting with psychic powers, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey.
  • B. The Goat
    "The Goat" is a 1921 silent comedy short film starring Buster Keaton, known for its inventive gags and Keaton’s deadpan physical comedy.
  • C. Small Gods
    Small Gods is a satirical fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett set in his Discworld universe, exploring religion, belief, and institutional power through dark humor and philosophical insight.
  • D. Porcupine Camp
    Porcupine Camp was a key mining settlement that emerged as a central hub during the Porcupine Gold Rush in northern Ontario, Canada.
  • E. The Sick Goat
    "The Sick Goat" is a 17th-century pastoral genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Karel Dujardin, known for its detailed depiction of animals and rural life.
  • 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_69d381b5116081908d85227bab6d3c0c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9ce6bb08190bfeaba98a126526d completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbbad25081908712601404734988 completed April 9, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d303888190aa556287b3b1cc03 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859cc1aac8190ab232bb4e4e4fac1 completed April 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:06 p.m.