Triple

T12859095
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Town Like Alice E307536 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Joe Harman
Joe Harman is a central fictional character in Nevil Shute’s novel "A Town Like Alice," known for his resilience, quiet heroism, and romantic relationship with the protagonist Jean Paget.
E1010397 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: Joe Harman | Statement: [A Town Like Alice, mainCharacter, Joe Harman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Harman
Context triple: [A Town Like Alice, mainCharacter, Joe Harman]
  • A. Bill Hardman
    Bill Hardman was an American jazz trumpeter known for his work in the hard bop genre and performances with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and other prominent ensembles.
  • B. Keith Hammond
    Keith Hammond is a pseudonym used by American science fiction and fantasy author Henry Kuttner for some of his published works.
  • C. Ben Harney
    Ben Harney is an American actor best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in the original Broadway production of the musical "Dreamgirls."
  • D. Bill Heslop
    Bill Heslop is a domineering, corrupt small-town Australian politician and the overbearing father of the protagonist in the film "Muriel's Wedding."
  • E. Billy Higgins
    Billy Higgins was a highly influential American jazz drummer known for his work in hard bop and free jazz, recording extensively with artists such as Ornette Coleman and Dexter Gordon.
  • 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: Joe Harman
Triple: [A Town Like Alice, mainCharacter, Joe Harman]
Generated description
Joe Harman is a central fictional character in Nevil Shute’s novel "A Town Like Alice," known for his resilience, quiet heroism, and romantic relationship with the protagonist Jean Paget.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Harman
Target entity description: Joe Harman is a central fictional character in Nevil Shute’s novel "A Town Like Alice," known for his resilience, quiet heroism, and romantic relationship with the protagonist Jean Paget.
  • A. Bill Hardman
    Bill Hardman was an American jazz trumpeter known for his work in the hard bop genre and performances with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and other prominent ensembles.
  • B. Keith Hammond
    Keith Hammond is a pseudonym used by American science fiction and fantasy author Henry Kuttner for some of his published works.
  • C. Ben Harney
    Ben Harney is an American actor best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in the original Broadway production of the musical "Dreamgirls."
  • D. Bill Heslop
    Bill Heslop is a domineering, corrupt small-town Australian politician and the overbearing father of the protagonist in the film "Muriel's Wedding."
  • E. Billy Higgins
    Billy Higgins was a highly influential American jazz drummer known for his work in hard bop and free jazz, recording extensively with artists such as Ornette Coleman and Dexter Gordon.
  • 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d970242bd48190941cbae0315ebc3d completed April 10, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af533d188190b9c816cdc892fe99 completed May 3, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b02e3b9881909387c1f70176a1bd completed May 3, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b11ced30819090f67a0b1e1369aa completed May 3, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:37 p.m.