Triple

T11197120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Arms and the Man E264950 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Major Paul Petkoff
Major Paul Petkoff is a wealthy, somewhat complacent Bulgarian officer and landowner who provides comic contrast to the romanticized notions of war and heroism in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Arms and the Man."
E909451 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: Major Paul Petkoff | Statement: [Arms and the Man, mainCharacter, Major Paul Petkoff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Paul Petkoff
Context triple: [Arms and the Man, mainCharacter, Major Paul Petkoff]
  • A. Major John Reisman
    Major John Reisman is the tough, unorthodox U.S. Army officer who leads a group of condemned soldiers on a dangerous commando mission in the war film "The Dirty Dozen."
  • B. Lt. Col. Ben Gately
    Lt. Col. Ben Gately is a fictional U.S. Army Air Forces officer best known as one of the central characters in the World War II film "Twelve O'Clock High."
  • C. Colonel Frank Fitts
    Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • D. General Frank R. McCoy
    General Frank R. McCoy was a senior U.S. Army officer and diplomat who served in various military and advisory roles, including participation in high-level investigative and policy commissions before and during World War II.
  • E. Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
    Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is the tough, duty-bound U.S. Cavalry officer played by John Wayne in the 1950 Western film "Rio Grande," where he struggles to balance military obligations with strained family relationships.
  • 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: Major Paul Petkoff
Triple: [Arms and the Man, mainCharacter, Major Paul Petkoff]
Generated description
Major Paul Petkoff is a wealthy, somewhat complacent Bulgarian officer and landowner who provides comic contrast to the romanticized notions of war and heroism in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Arms and the Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Paul Petkoff
Target entity description: Major Paul Petkoff is a wealthy, somewhat complacent Bulgarian officer and landowner who provides comic contrast to the romanticized notions of war and heroism in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Arms and the Man."
  • A. Major John Reisman
    Major John Reisman is the tough, unorthodox U.S. Army officer who leads a group of condemned soldiers on a dangerous commando mission in the war film "The Dirty Dozen."
  • B. Lt. Col. Ben Gately
    Lt. Col. Ben Gately is a fictional U.S. Army Air Forces officer best known as one of the central characters in the World War II film "Twelve O'Clock High."
  • C. Colonel Frank Fitts
    Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • D. General Frank R. McCoy
    General Frank R. McCoy was a senior U.S. Army officer and diplomat who served in various military and advisory roles, including participation in high-level investigative and policy commissions before and during World War II.
  • E. Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke
    Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is the tough, duty-bound U.S. Cavalry officer played by John Wayne in the 1950 Western film "Rio Grande," where he struggles to balance military obligations with strained family relationships.
  • 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_69e4840640688190a5b3c36883b8fce8 completed April 19, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e48718731c819084ae4ab94e79ca29 completed April 19, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e487f99abc8190a789286a4fc13eff completed April 19, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:29 p.m.