Triple

T13080500
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Lee E310187 entity
Predicate relatedToCharacter P37304 FINISHED
Object Dr. Benway
Dr. Benway is a sinister, amoral doctor and recurring character in William S. Burroughs’ works, most notably in the novel "Naked Lunch."
E1020574 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: Dr. Benway | Statement: [William Lee, relatedToCharacter, Dr. Benway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Benway
Context triple: [William Lee, relatedToCharacter, Dr. Benway]
  • A. Dr. Delmarre
    Dr. Delmarre is a key character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," serving as a prominent roboticist whose death becomes the central mystery of the story.
  • B. Dr. Barry
    Dr. Barry is a fictional character named Barry who holds a doctoral title, appearing in a narrative work featuring the character Maurice.
  • C. Dr. Mumford
    Dr. Mumford is the fictional psychologist protagonist of the 1999 comedy-drama film "Mumford," known for his unconventional therapeutic methods in a small town.
  • D. Dr. Fagan
    Dr. Fagan is a comically unscrupulous and financially desperate headmaster of a disreputable Welsh boarding school in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Decline and Fall."
  • E. Dr. Cadman
    Dr. Cadman is a sinister surgeon in the 1956 horror film "The Black Sleep," known for conducting macabre brain experiments on unwilling subjects.
  • 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: Dr. Benway
Triple: [William Lee, relatedToCharacter, Dr. Benway]
Generated description
Dr. Benway is a sinister, amoral doctor and recurring character in William S. Burroughs’ works, most notably in the novel "Naked Lunch."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Benway
Target entity description: Dr. Benway is a sinister, amoral doctor and recurring character in William S. Burroughs’ works, most notably in the novel "Naked Lunch."
  • A. Dr. Delmarre
    Dr. Delmarre is a key character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," serving as a prominent roboticist whose death becomes the central mystery of the story.
  • B. Dr. Barry
    Dr. Barry is a fictional character named Barry who holds a doctoral title, appearing in a narrative work featuring the character Maurice.
  • C. Dr. Mumford
    Dr. Mumford is the fictional psychologist protagonist of the 1999 comedy-drama film "Mumford," known for his unconventional therapeutic methods in a small town.
  • D. Dr. Fagan
    Dr. Fagan is a comically unscrupulous and financially desperate headmaster of a disreputable Welsh boarding school in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Decline and Fall."
  • E. Dr. Cadman
    Dr. Cadman is a sinister surgeon in the 1956 horror film "The Black Sleep," known for conducting macabre brain experiments on unwilling subjects.
  • 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_69d806a733548190989cfd4ce981ca33 completed April 9, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98119cb7081908b78ffe83ec99851 completed April 10, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6d60c603881909dff49f4356042b5 completed May 3, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6d86562f88190afd1fe49c4632e09 completed May 3, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6d9486d748190bc5e2927bc36993e completed May 3, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:01 p.m.