Triple

T11950183
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Hunting of the Snark E284405 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object the Butcher
The Butcher is a comically earnest and somewhat dim-witted character in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark," known for his peculiar logic and role in the absurd quest for the elusive Snark.
E956746 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: the Butcher | Statement: [The Hunting of the Snark, featuresCharacter, the Butcher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the Butcher
Context triple: [The Hunting of the Snark, featuresCharacter, the Butcher]
  • A. the Butcher
    The Butcher was the fearsome nickname of Jezzar Pasha, an 18th-century Ottoman governor of Acre notorious for his brutality and ruthless rule.
  • B. The Butcher
    "The Butcher" is the notorious nickname of Spanish general Valeriano Weyler, remembered for his brutal reconcentration policies in Cuba during the late 19th century.
  • C. The Butcher
    The Butcher is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert depicting a detailed, everyday scene centered on a butcher’s shop.
  • D. Butcher
    Butcher is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as meat cutters or slaughterers.
  • E. Bill the Butcher
    Bill the Butcher is a ruthless, nativist gang leader and master knife-fighter in 19th-century New York City, best known as the main antagonist in the film "Gangs of New York."
  • 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: the Butcher
Triple: [The Hunting of the Snark, featuresCharacter, the Butcher]
Generated description
The Butcher is a comically earnest and somewhat dim-witted character in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark," known for his peculiar logic and role in the absurd quest for the elusive Snark.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the Butcher
Target entity description: The Butcher is a comically earnest and somewhat dim-witted character in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark," known for his peculiar logic and role in the absurd quest for the elusive Snark.
  • A. the Butcher
    The Butcher was the fearsome nickname of Jezzar Pasha, an 18th-century Ottoman governor of Acre notorious for his brutality and ruthless rule.
  • B. The Butcher
    "The Butcher" is the notorious nickname of Spanish general Valeriano Weyler, remembered for his brutal reconcentration policies in Cuba during the late 19th century.
  • C. The Butcher
    The Butcher is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert depicting a detailed, everyday scene centered on a butcher’s shop.
  • D. Butcher
    Butcher is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as meat cutters or slaughterers.
  • E. Bill the Butcher
    Bill the Butcher is a ruthless, nativist gang leader and master knife-fighter in 19th-century New York City, best known as the main antagonist in the film "Gangs of New York."
  • 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_69d6ab2db38c8190b1f0ed6663ef8ada completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d90364c2608190a3946c9595c71164 completed April 10, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f458f16f088190a0005ff0fd4f547f completed May 1, 2026, 7:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f45f86349c81909a806fd7be4008e9 completed May 1, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f4647ee1748190975bce3bbf51a3bc completed May 1, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.