Triple

T12799556
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ragged Dick E305977 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Dick Hunter
Dick Hunter is the impoverished yet ambitious New York City bootblack who serves as the plucky, self-improving protagonist of Horatio Alger Jr.’s novel "Ragged Dick."
E1002894 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: Dick Hunter | Statement: [Ragged Dick, mainCharacter, Dick Hunter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dick Hunter
Context triple: [Ragged Dick, mainCharacter, Dick Hunter]
  • A. William Gillespie
    William Gillespie was a Scottish-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his supporting roles in numerous comedies, including those produced by Hal Roach.
  • B. Christopher Nixon Cox
    Christopher Nixon Cox is an American lawyer, political commentator, and grandson of former U.S. President Richard Nixon.
  • C. John Farson
    John Farson was a prominent Oak Park, Illinois businessman and civic leader best known as the original owner and namesake of the architecturally significant Pleasant Home mansion.
  • D. Bill Brennan
    Bill Brennan was an early 20th-century American baseball umpire who worked in both the major leagues and prominent postseason series.
  • E. Jim V. Hart
    Jim V. Hart is an American screenwriter and author best known for his work on major fantasy and adventure films such as "Hook," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," and "Contact."
  • 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: Dick Hunter
Triple: [Ragged Dick, mainCharacter, Dick Hunter]
Generated description
Dick Hunter is the impoverished yet ambitious New York City bootblack who serves as the plucky, self-improving protagonist of Horatio Alger Jr.’s novel "Ragged Dick."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dick Hunter
Target entity description: Dick Hunter is the impoverished yet ambitious New York City bootblack who serves as the plucky, self-improving protagonist of Horatio Alger Jr.’s novel "Ragged Dick."
  • A. William Gillespie
    William Gillespie was a Scottish-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his supporting roles in numerous comedies, including those produced by Hal Roach.
  • B. Christopher Nixon Cox
    Christopher Nixon Cox is an American lawyer, political commentator, and grandson of former U.S. President Richard Nixon.
  • C. John Farson
    John Farson was a prominent Oak Park, Illinois businessman and civic leader best known as the original owner and namesake of the architecturally significant Pleasant Home mansion.
  • D. Bill Brennan
    Bill Brennan was an early 20th-century American baseball umpire who worked in both the major leagues and prominent postseason series.
  • E. Jim V. Hart
    Jim V. Hart is an American screenwriter and author best known for his work on major fantasy and adventure films such as "Hook," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," and "Contact."
  • 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_69d7bdf366888190a8cccb982606889c completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e6f858c8190915ede38e9a6a2df completed April 10, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6850f9ae4819094599b48d8d3a074 completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f685dd1a88819096e40711f10d898a completed May 2, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68884ed348190a1b2c89b1d655fa9 completed May 2, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:30 p.m.