Triple

T12108423
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Von Ryan's Express E288360 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Colonel Joseph L. Ryan
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan is the tough, resourceful American Air Force officer who leads a daring prisoner-of-war escape in the World War II adventure novel and film "Von Ryan's Express."
 E970130 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: Colonel Joseph L. Ryan | Statement: [Von Ryan's Express, mainCharacter, Colonel Joseph L. Ryan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colonel Joseph L. Ryan
Context triple: [Von Ryan's Express, mainCharacter, Colonel Joseph L. Ryan]
  • A. Colonel Oran K. Henderson
    Colonel Oran K. Henderson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding units in Vietnam and later facing charges related to the cover-up of the My Lai Massacre.
  • B. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • C. Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
    Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
  • D. Colonel Oscar F. Peatross
    Colonel Oscar F. Peatross was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and World War II veteran who later led Marine forces during the Vietnam War.
  • E. Brigadier General Walter R. Tipton
    Brigadier General Walter R. Tipton was a U.S. military officer honored for his service by having Tipton Airport named after him.
  • 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: Colonel Joseph L. Ryan
Triple: [Von Ryan's Express, mainCharacter, Colonel Joseph L. Ryan]
Generated description
Colonel Joseph L. Ryan is the tough, resourceful American Air Force officer who leads a daring prisoner-of-war escape in the World War II adventure novel and film "Von Ryan's Express."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colonel Joseph L. Ryan
Target entity description: Colonel Joseph L. Ryan is the tough, resourceful American Air Force officer who leads a daring prisoner-of-war escape in the World War II adventure novel and film "Von Ryan's Express."
  • A. Colonel Oran K. Henderson
    Colonel Oran K. Henderson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding units in Vietnam and later facing charges related to the cover-up of the My Lai Massacre.
  • B. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • C. Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
    Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
  • D. Colonel Oscar F. Peatross
    Colonel Oscar F. Peatross was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and World War II veteran who later led Marine forces during the Vietnam War.
  • E. Brigadier General Walter R. Tipton
    Brigadier General Walter R. Tipton was a U.S. military officer honored for his service by having Tipton Airport named after him.
  • 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_69d6ab4a5c448190a110d1273314b21a completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915632dc48190863e0239cef37e24 completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60a7330c481909e06468be517cf5f completed May 2, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60c9276d0819086b5f7712fe8d6e6 completed May 2, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60d4889d48190b2dfda8a0978cc72 completed May 2, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.