Triple

T12942477
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Child of God E309668 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Lester Ballard
Lester Ballard is the violent, mentally unstable drifter and antihero at the center of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Child of God," known for his descent into extreme depravity and isolation in rural Tennessee.
E1031910 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: Lester Ballard | Statement: [Child of God, mainCharacter, Lester Ballard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Ballard
Context triple: [Child of God, mainCharacter, Lester Ballard]
  • A. Lester Burdon
    Lester Burdon is a conflicted police officer whose personal and moral struggles drive much of the tension and tragedy in the novel and film "House of Sand and Fog."
  • B. Lloyd Barker
    Lloyd Barker was an American gangster best known as a member of the notorious Barker–Karpis crime gang during the early 20th century.
  • C. Lester Whittington
    Lester Whittington was an architect best known for designing the Alaska State Capitol building in Juneau.
  • D. Russ Ballard
    Russ Ballard is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known for writing hit songs for artists like Argent, Rainbow, and Kiss, as well as for his own solo work.
  • E. Leland Patton
    Leland Patton is a theatre professional best known as a founder of the Crossroads Theatre Company, a prominent African-American theater organization.
  • 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: Lester Ballard
Triple: [Child of God, mainCharacter, Lester Ballard]
Generated description
Lester Ballard is the violent, mentally unstable drifter and antihero at the center of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Child of God," known for his descent into extreme depravity and isolation in rural Tennessee.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Ballard
Target entity description: Lester Ballard is the violent, mentally unstable drifter and antihero at the center of Cormac McCarthy’s novel "Child of God," known for his descent into extreme depravity and isolation in rural Tennessee.
  • A. Lester Burdon
    Lester Burdon is a conflicted police officer whose personal and moral struggles drive much of the tension and tragedy in the novel and film "House of Sand and Fog."
  • B. Lloyd Barker
    Lloyd Barker was an American gangster best known as a member of the notorious Barker–Karpis crime gang during the early 20th century.
  • C. Lester Whittington
    Lester Whittington was an architect best known for designing the Alaska State Capitol building in Juneau.
  • D. Russ Ballard
    Russ Ballard is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known for writing hit songs for artists like Argent, Rainbow, and Kiss, as well as for his own solo work.
  • E. Leland Patton
    Leland Patton is a theatre professional best known as a founder of the Crossroads Theatre Company, a prominent African-American theater organization.
  • 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_69d7bdfb57a88190836b743e2825feca completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e1a28688190ab9fd1307bc76b4a completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f716b63ad481909eb461d923f0d0c2 completed May 3, 2026, 9:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7179da5488190a10acadbf60ea470 completed May 3, 2026, 9:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f71847e7308190ac6f59a7dcafa452 completed May 3, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:43 p.m.