Triple

T10394959
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Men Who Stare at Goats (film) E244986 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Larry Hooper
Larry Hooper is a fictional U.S. military psychic and antagonist in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," known for his involvement in secret paranormal experiments.
E865321 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: Larry Hooper | Statement: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), mainCharacter, Larry Hooper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Larry Hooper
Context triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), mainCharacter, Larry Hooper]
  • A. Andy Hopper
    Andy Hopper is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his influential work in computer networking, systems research, and the founding of several technology companies.
  • B. Steve Hooker
    Steve Hooker is an Australian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medallist, best known for winning the men's pole vault at the 2008 Beijing Games.
  • C. Lew Harper
    Lew Harper is a hardboiled private detective character, famously portrayed by Paul Newman in a series of crime films adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novels.
  • D. Sean Hopper
    Sean Hopper is an American keyboardist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Huey Lewis and the News.
  • E. Mel Hunter
    Mel Hunter was an American illustrator and artist best known for his science fiction book and magazine covers in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Larry Hooper
Triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), mainCharacter, Larry Hooper]
Generated description
Larry Hooper is a fictional U.S. military psychic and antagonist in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," known for his involvement in secret paranormal experiments.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Larry Hooper
Target entity description: Larry Hooper is a fictional U.S. military psychic and antagonist in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," known for his involvement in secret paranormal experiments.
  • A. Andy Hopper
    Andy Hopper is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his influential work in computer networking, systems research, and the founding of several technology companies.
  • B. Steve Hooker
    Steve Hooker is an Australian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medallist, best known for winning the men's pole vault at the 2008 Beijing Games.
  • C. Lew Harper
    Lew Harper is a hardboiled private detective character, famously portrayed by Paul Newman in a series of crime films adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novels.
  • D. Sean Hopper
    Sean Hopper is an American keyboardist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Huey Lewis and the News.
  • E. Mel Hunter
    Mel Hunter was an American illustrator and artist best known for his science fiction book and magazine covers in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d89f6fbc848190806d50bfad654b27 completed April 10, 2026, 6:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8a2b0d8c88190a1a64bd2bbacabbe completed April 10, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d8a6560ddc81909d540f78a9413b3e completed April 10, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:06 p.m.