Triple

T12326401
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Madama Butterfly E293840 entity
Predicate characterRole P268 FINISHED
Object B. F. Pinkerton is a U.S. naval officer
B. F. Pinkerton is the American naval lieutenant whose ill-fated marriage to the geisha Cio-Cio San drives the tragic plot of Puccini’s opera *Madama Butterfly*.
E975182 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 is a U.S. naval officer | Statement: [Madama Butterfly, characterRole, B. F. Pinkerton is a U.S. naval officer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. F. Pinkerton is a U.S. naval officer
Context triple: [Madama Butterfly, characterRole, B. F. Pinkerton is a U.S. naval officer]
  • A. Major Pinkerton
    Major Pinkerton is a fictional character associated with the Pinkerton family in Marvel Comics, often depicted as a British military figure connected to wartime adventures.
  • B. Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
    Captain Wallace B. Binghamton is the bumbling, irritable, and often exasperated commanding officer and comic foil in the 1960s World War II sitcom "McHale's Navy."
  • C. Edward Preble
    Edward Preble was a prominent early United States naval officer best known for his aggressive and influential leadership in the Mediterranean during the early 19th century.
  • D. Major Dana H. Crissy
    Major Dana H. Crissy was a U.S. Army aviator and early military pilot commemorated for his service and contributions to American military aviation.
  • E. Texas Secretary of the Navy
    The Texas Secretary of the Navy was a cabinet-level official of the Republic of Texas responsible for overseeing its short-lived naval forces during the 1830s and 1840s.
  • 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 is a U.S. naval officer
Triple: [Madama Butterfly, characterRole, B. F. Pinkerton is a U.S. naval officer]
Generated description
B. F. Pinkerton is the American naval lieutenant whose ill-fated marriage to 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 is a U.S. naval officer
Target entity description: B. F. Pinkerton is the American naval lieutenant whose ill-fated marriage to the geisha Cio-Cio San drives the tragic plot of Puccini’s opera *Madama Butterfly*.
  • A. Major Pinkerton
    Major Pinkerton is a fictional character associated with the Pinkerton family in Marvel Comics, often depicted as a British military figure connected to wartime adventures.
  • B. Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
    Captain Wallace B. Binghamton is the bumbling, irritable, and often exasperated commanding officer and comic foil in the 1960s World War II sitcom "McHale's Navy."
  • C. Edward Preble
    Edward Preble was a prominent early United States naval officer best known for his aggressive and influential leadership in the Mediterranean during the early 19th century.
  • D. Major Dana H. Crissy
    Major Dana H. Crissy was a U.S. Army aviator and early military pilot commemorated for his service and contributions to American military aviation.
  • E. Texas Secretary of the Navy
    The Texas Secretary of the Navy was a cabinet-level official of the Republic of Texas responsible for overseeing its short-lived naval forces during the 1830s and 1840s.
  • 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.