Triple

T13008842
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject For Better or For Worse E322354 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object John Patterson
John Patterson is the mild-mannered, hardworking father and family dentist at the center of Lynn Johnston’s comic strip "For Better or For Worse."
E1016046 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: John Patterson | Statement: [For Better or For Worse, mainCharacter, John Patterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Patterson
Context triple: [For Better or For Worse, mainCharacter, John Patterson]
  • A. John J. Rooney
    John J. Rooney was an American Democratic politician who served for many years as a U.S. Representative from New York.
  • B. John McKinley
    John McKinley was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid-19th century, known for his participation in significant cases involving federal power and economic development.
  • C. Llewellyn Thompson
    Llewellyn Thompson was a prominent American diplomat and Soviet expert who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union during key Cold War crises, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • D. Rance Cleaveland
    Rance Cleaveland is a computer scientist known for his work in formal methods and model checking, particularly in the verification of concurrent and distributed systems.
  • E. William H. Gleason
    William H. Gleason was an American politician and businessman active in the 19th century, notably involved in Florida’s development and governance during the Reconstruction era.
  • 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: John Patterson
Triple: [For Better or For Worse, mainCharacter, John Patterson]
Generated description
John Patterson is the mild-mannered, hardworking father and family dentist at the center of Lynn Johnston’s comic strip "For Better or For Worse."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Patterson
Target entity description: John Patterson is the mild-mannered, hardworking father and family dentist at the center of Lynn Johnston’s comic strip "For Better or For Worse."
  • A. John J. Rooney
    John J. Rooney was an American Democratic politician who served for many years as a U.S. Representative from New York.
  • B. John McKinley
    John McKinley was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid-19th century, known for his participation in significant cases involving federal power and economic development.
  • C. Llewellyn Thompson
    Llewellyn Thompson was a prominent American diplomat and Soviet expert who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union during key Cold War crises, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • D. Rance Cleaveland
    Rance Cleaveland is a computer scientist known for his work in formal methods and model checking, particularly in the verification of concurrent and distributed systems.
  • E. William H. Gleason
    William H. Gleason was an American politician and businessman active in the 19th century, notably involved in Florida’s development and governance during the Reconstruction era.
  • 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_69d807657e8c8190bd9435ee2f823845 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e9cf0108190b02f498c6ccc91f8 completed April 10, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6c10bb13481909650432d5c1f5872 completed May 3, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6c381072c819080a9e92add50c780 completed May 3, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6c43f62c0819092c2f5090bf7fd51 completed May 3, 2026, 3:42 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:48 p.m.