Triple

T11196985
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Man and Superman E264947 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object John Tanner
John Tanner is the outspoken, iconoclastic protagonist of George Bernard Shaw's play "Man and Superman," embodying Shavian ideas about social reform, marriage, and the "life force."
E913866 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: John Tanner | Statement: [Man and Superman, character, John Tanner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tanner
Context triple: [Man and Superman, character, John Tanner]
  • A. John Tanner
    John Tanner is the investigative television journalist who becomes entangled in a deadly web of espionage and betrayal in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
  • B. Joseph R. Tanner
    Joseph R. Tanner is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including multiple Hubble Space Telescope servicing flights.
  • C. John Riley Tanner
    John Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901.
  • D. Thomas Parris
    Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Luther Hicks
    Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
  • 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: John Tanner
Triple: [Man and Superman, character, John Tanner]
Generated description
John Tanner is the outspoken, iconoclastic protagonist of George Bernard Shaw's play "Man and Superman," embodying Shavian ideas about social reform, marriage, and the "life force."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tanner
Target entity description: John Tanner is the outspoken, iconoclastic protagonist of George Bernard Shaw's play "Man and Superman," embodying Shavian ideas about social reform, marriage, and the "life force."
  • A. John Tanner
    John Tanner is the investigative television journalist who becomes entangled in a deadly web of espionage and betrayal in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
  • B. Joseph R. Tanner
    Joseph R. Tanner is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including multiple Hubble Space Telescope servicing flights.
  • C. John Riley Tanner
    John Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901.
  • D. Thomas Parris
    Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Luther Hicks
    Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
  • 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_69d6aa9eb9248190b20211772621b4bc completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8c082fc8190866c574f698b59ef completed April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4cc2ec5348190b66a3cc5779aa327 completed April 19, 2026, 12:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4d9e87508819080932fac06fb754d completed April 19, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4dda28b0081909245b65faae3533b completed April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:29 p.m.