Triple

T12874035
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Battler E307918 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Ad Francis
Ad Francis is a mentally unstable, physically scarred former prizefighter who appears as a central character in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Battler.”
 E1007536 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: Ad Francis | Statement: [The Battler, featuresCharacter, Ad Francis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ad Francis
Context triple: [The Battler, featuresCharacter, Ad Francis]
  • A. Forest Baskett
    Forest Baskett is an American computer scientist and venture capitalist known for his influential work in computer architecture and his role as a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
  • B. Roy Hurley
    Roy Hurley was an American professional basketball player who competed in the Basketball Association of America during the 1940s.
  • C. Paul Westphal
    Paul Westphal was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach best known as an All-Star guard for the Phoenix Suns in the 1970s.
  • D. Paul Silas
    Paul Silas was an American professional basketball player and three-time NBA champion who later became a head coach in the league.
  • E. Neal Smith
    Neal Smith was a long-serving U.S. Congressman from Iowa known for his work on conservation and public infrastructure projects.
  • 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: Ad Francis
Triple: [The Battler, featuresCharacter, Ad Francis]
Generated description
Ad Francis is a mentally unstable, physically scarred former prizefighter who appears as a central character in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Battler.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ad Francis
Target entity description: Ad Francis is a mentally unstable, physically scarred former prizefighter who appears as a central character in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Battler.”
  • A. Forest Baskett
    Forest Baskett is an American computer scientist and venture capitalist known for his influential work in computer architecture and his role as a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
  • B. Roy Hurley
    Roy Hurley was an American professional basketball player who competed in the Basketball Association of America during the 1940s.
  • C. Paul Westphal
    Paul Westphal was an American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach best known as an All-Star guard for the Phoenix Suns in the 1970s.
  • D. Paul Silas
    Paul Silas was an American professional basketball player and three-time NBA champion who later became a head coach in the league.
  • E. Neal Smith
    Neal Smith was a long-serving U.S. Congressman from Iowa known for his work on conservation and public infrastructure projects.
  • 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_69d7bdf69bc48190af6c2621f28ca351 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d970f87aa48190a7234424a6badef0 completed April 10, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f69bb679f88190a1799b73c3f738b6 completed May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69fb238f08190a0c63d71bfbe4529 completed May 3, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a087120c81908644ed732eff4d99 completed May 3, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:38 p.m.