Triple

T12326397
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Madama Butterfly E293840 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object B. F. Pinkerton
B. F. Pinkerton is the American naval officer whose impulsive marriage and subsequent abandonment of the geisha Cio-Cio San drives the tragic plot of Puccini’s opera *Madama Butterfly*.
E975180 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: B. F. Pinkerton | Statement: [Madama Butterfly, mainCharacter, B. F. Pinkerton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. F. Pinkerton
Context triple: [Madama Butterfly, mainCharacter, B. F. Pinkerton]
  • A. Percy Pinkerton
    Percy Pinkerton is a British soldier and member of Marvel Comics’ Howling Commandos, known for his dapper appearance, bowler hat, and fighting alongside Nick Fury during World War II.
  • B. Allan Pinkerton
    Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
  • C. Isaac Parker
    Isaac Parker was a 19th-century Texas legislator and early settler whose influence in the region led to a county being named in his honor.
  • D. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • E. William Holmes Brown
    William Holmes Brown was a long-serving Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, known for his expertise in legislative procedure and influential role in guiding House operations.
  • 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: B. F. Pinkerton
Triple: [Madama Butterfly, mainCharacter, B. F. Pinkerton]
Generated description
B. F. Pinkerton is the American naval officer whose impulsive marriage and subsequent abandonment of the geisha Cio-Cio San drives the tragic plot of Puccini’s opera *Madama Butterfly*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. F. Pinkerton
Target entity description: B. F. Pinkerton is the American naval officer whose impulsive marriage and subsequent abandonment of the geisha Cio-Cio San drives the tragic plot of Puccini’s opera *Madama Butterfly*.
  • A. Percy Pinkerton
    Percy Pinkerton is a British soldier and member of Marvel Comics’ Howling Commandos, known for his dapper appearance, bowler hat, and fighting alongside Nick Fury during World War II.
  • B. Allan Pinkerton
    Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
  • C. Isaac Parker
    Isaac Parker was a 19th-century Texas legislator and early settler whose influence in the region led to a county being named in his honor.
  • D. William Jackson
    William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
  • E. William Holmes Brown
    William Holmes Brown was a long-serving Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, known for his expertise in legislative procedure and influential role in guiding House operations.
  • 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_69d6ab6ae0dc8190b1522a9c1c55c114 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f4f90a881908c5060dd197744d1 completed April 10, 2026, 6:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e8d27288190bdf32acd600141db completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61f9493d081909a543bcafeb508d1 completed May 2, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f620ad9ec0819099909142fbad6412 completed May 2, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.