Triple
T1199860
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gunga Din |
E25754
|
entity |
| Predicate | portraysCharacter |
P1668
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" Ballantine |
E137421
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" Ballantine | Statement: [Gunga Din, portraysCharacter, Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" Ballantine]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" Ballantine Context triple: [Gunga Din, portraysCharacter, Sergeant Thomas "Tommy" Ballantine]
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A.
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.
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B.
Tommy McClelland
Tommy McClelland is a collegiate athletics administrator known for serving as the athletic director at Rice University and previously holding the same role at Louisiana Tech.
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C.
Tommy Dickson
Tommy Dickson was a prolific Northern Irish forward best known as a legendary goal-scorer and iconic figure for Linfield FC in the mid-20th century.
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D.
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.
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E.
Sergeant Archibald Cutter
chosen
Sergeant Archibald Cutter is a roguish, treasure-seeking British soldier in colonial India, best known as one of the three main protagonists in the adventure film "Gunga Din."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bd9d56748190a12fe4a30346f1d8 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac831703bc8190839deb02075cb8fd |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:57 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.