Triple

T12826732
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Outcasts of Poker Flat E306670 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Uncle Billy
Uncle Billy is a drunken, unscrupulous thief and gambler who betrays his fellow exiles in Bret Harte’s short story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”
E1004843 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: Uncle Billy | Statement: [The Outcasts of Poker Flat, mainCharacter, Uncle Billy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Uncle Billy
Context triple: [The Outcasts of Poker Flat, mainCharacter, Uncle Billy]
  • A. Uncle Billy Bailey
    Uncle Billy Bailey is the absent-minded but kind-hearted uncle and business partner of George Bailey in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • B. Uncle Roy
    Uncle Roy is the nickname of Leroy S. Johnson, a prominent leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
  • C. Uncle Henry
    Uncle Henry is Dorothy Gale’s hardworking Kansas farmer uncle who appears as her guardian in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
  • D. Uncle John
    Uncle John is a character in the rock and roll song "Long Tall Sally," portrayed as a relative involved in the song’s lively, chaotic family drama.
  • E. Uncle John
    Uncle John is a minor but memorable character in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath," known as the guilt-ridden, self-punishing brother of Pa Joad in the Joad family.
  • 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: Uncle Billy
Triple: [The Outcasts of Poker Flat, mainCharacter, Uncle Billy]
Generated description
Uncle Billy is a drunken, unscrupulous thief and gambler who betrays his fellow exiles in Bret Harte’s short story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Uncle Billy
Target entity description: Uncle Billy is a drunken, unscrupulous thief and gambler who betrays his fellow exiles in Bret Harte’s short story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”
  • A. Uncle Billy Bailey
    Uncle Billy Bailey is the absent-minded but kind-hearted uncle and business partner of George Bailey in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • B. Uncle Roy
    Uncle Roy is the nickname of Leroy S. Johnson, a prominent leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
  • C. Uncle Henry
    Uncle Henry is Dorothy Gale’s hardworking Kansas farmer uncle who appears as her guardian in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
  • D. Uncle John
    Uncle John is a minor but memorable character in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath," known as the guilt-ridden, self-punishing brother of Pa Joad in the Joad family.
  • E. Uncle John
    Uncle John is a character in the rock and roll song "Long Tall Sally," portrayed as a relative involved in the song’s lively, chaotic family drama.
  • 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_69d7bdf52b94819096d6f0ba4ab50a98 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96fae51608190a50970bd038359a5 completed April 10, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68ed4f7388190ba989b8a79bd7c6d completed May 2, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f691341d0081909ca3b281ee64b42b completed May 3, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69237394c8190832d6dae22434fdc completed May 3, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:33 p.m.