Triple

T11754363
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Slaughterhouse-Five E279486 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Billy Pilgrim
Billy Pilgrim is the time-unstuck, war-scarred antihero of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, whose disjointed experiences satirically explore free will, trauma, and the absurdity of war.
E945057 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: Billy Pilgrim | Statement: [Slaughterhouse-Five, protagonist, Billy Pilgrim]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Pilgrim
Context triple: [Slaughterhouse-Five, protagonist, Billy Pilgrim]
  • A. Ford Prefect
    Ford Prefect is a roving alien researcher and eccentric hitchhiker who serves as Arthur Dent’s savvy, sardonic guide to the universe in Douglas Adams’ comic science fiction series.
  • B. Arthur Dent
    Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
  • C. Philip J. Fry
    Philip J. Fry is a dim-witted but good-hearted 20th-century pizza delivery boy who becomes a central figure in the far-future sci-fi comedy world of Futurama after being accidentally cryogenically frozen.
  • D. Slartibartfast
    Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
  • E. Marvin the Martian
    Marvin the Martian is a classic Looney Tunes character, a soft-spoken yet menacing Martian villain known for his Roman-style helmet, ray gun, and comically earnest attempts to destroy Earth.
  • 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: Billy Pilgrim
Triple: [Slaughterhouse-Five, protagonist, Billy Pilgrim]
Generated description
Billy Pilgrim is the time-unstuck, war-scarred antihero of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, whose disjointed experiences satirically explore free will, trauma, and the absurdity of war.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Pilgrim
Target entity description: Billy Pilgrim is the time-unstuck, war-scarred antihero of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, whose disjointed experiences satirically explore free will, trauma, and the absurdity of war.
  • A. Ford Prefect
    Ford Prefect is a roving alien researcher and eccentric hitchhiker who serves as Arthur Dent’s savvy, sardonic guide to the universe in Douglas Adams’ comic science fiction series.
  • B. Arthur Dent
    Arthur Dent is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who is swept off Earth just before its destruction and thrust into absurd intergalactic adventures.
  • C. Philip J. Fry
    Philip J. Fry is a dim-witted but good-hearted 20th-century pizza delivery boy who becomes a central figure in the far-future sci-fi comedy world of Futurama after being accidentally cryogenically frozen.
  • D. Slartibartfast
    Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
  • E. Marvin the Martian
    Marvin the Martian is a classic Looney Tunes character, a soft-spoken yet menacing Martian villain known for his Roman-style helmet, ray gun, and comically earnest attempts to destroy Earth.
  • 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_69d6ab01038c819080714901502c84fc completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a50b8a14819092a7397d73f0a8e3 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f01a21559c819097d0287dd8e2f411 completed April 28, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0319622c48190bee6c906f08c0a8c completed April 28, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f05ad36e4c8190b7239e5b33713369 completed April 28, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.