Triple

T1145487
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Our American Cousin E23554 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant Vernon
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
E131309 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: Lieutenant Vernon | Statement: [Our American Cousin, character, Lieutenant Vernon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Vernon
Context triple: [Our American Cousin, character, Lieutenant Vernon]
  • A. Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
    Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
  • B. Captain Englehorn
    Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
  • C. Marshal Pentecost
    Marshal Pentecost is the military rank and title held by Stacker Pentecost, the commanding officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the Pacific Rim universe.
  • D. Commander Judd
    Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
  • E. Brigadier Glyn Hughes
    Brigadier Glyn Hughes was a British Army medical officer renowned for organizing emergency relief and medical care for survivors during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
  • 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: Lieutenant Vernon
Triple: [Our American Cousin, character, Lieutenant Vernon]
Generated description
Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Vernon
Target entity description: Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • A. Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick
    Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was a United States Marine who became the inaugural Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, helping to define the senior enlisted leadership role in the service.
  • B. Captain Englehorn
    Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
  • C. Marshal Pentecost
    Marshal Pentecost is the military rank and title held by Stacker Pentecost, the commanding officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the Pacific Rim universe.
  • D. Commander Judd
    Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
  • E. Brigadier Glyn Hughes
    Brigadier Glyn Hughes was a British Army medical officer renowned for organizing emergency relief and medical care for survivors during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
  • 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_69a493ef399c8190b04b9146d2314f59 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc51244c8190bcd533f3e80c8f17 completed March 1, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5eb1f7d08190ba722dcbbc8a6799 completed March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5f5ac2f88190a1d27b6ff457ddd3 completed March 7, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5fbd55d88190a21f0e288bd9ae0a completed March 7, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.