Triple

T13434568
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Drugstore Cowboy E320196 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Bob Hughes
Bob Hughes is a drug-addicted thief and the charismatic leader of a small crew of pharmacy robbers in the film "Drugstore Cowboy."
E1042855 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: Bob Hughes | Statement: [Drugstore Cowboy, mainCharacter, Bob Hughes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bob Hughes
Context triple: [Drugstore Cowboy, mainCharacter, Bob Hughes]
  • A. Bob Hughes
    Bob Hughes is a long-running central character on the American soap opera "As the World Turns," known for his role as a dedicated doctor and family patriarch in the fictional town of Oakdale.
  • B. John Sheardown
    John Sheardown was a Canadian diplomat best known for sheltering American diplomats in Tehran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, an episode later dramatized as the "Canadian Caper."
  • C. Pat Hume
    Pat Hume was an Irish political activist and community worker best known for her vital behind-the-scenes role in supporting the peace process in Northern Ireland alongside her husband, SDLP leader and Nobel laureate John Hume.
  • D. Frank John Hughes
    Frank John Hughes is an American actor best known for his role as World War II paratrooper William "Wild Bill" Guarnere in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • E. Richard Smith
    Richard Smith is a son of Frederick W. Smith, the American businessman best known as the founder of FedEx.
  • 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: Bob Hughes
Triple: [Drugstore Cowboy, mainCharacter, Bob Hughes]
Generated description
Bob Hughes is a drug-addicted thief and the charismatic leader of a small crew of pharmacy robbers in the film "Drugstore Cowboy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bob Hughes
Target entity description: Bob Hughes is a drug-addicted thief and the charismatic leader of a small crew of pharmacy robbers in the film "Drugstore Cowboy."
  • A. Bob Hughes
    Bob Hughes is a long-running central character on the American soap opera "As the World Turns," known for his role as a dedicated doctor and family patriarch in the fictional town of Oakdale.
  • B. John Sheardown
    John Sheardown was a Canadian diplomat best known for sheltering American diplomats in Tehran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, an episode later dramatized as the "Canadian Caper."
  • C. Pat Hume
    Pat Hume was an Irish political activist and community worker best known for her vital behind-the-scenes role in supporting the peace process in Northern Ireland alongside her husband, SDLP leader and Nobel laureate John Hume.
  • D. Frank John Hughes
    Frank John Hughes is an American actor best known for his role as World War II paratrooper William "Wild Bill" Guarnere in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • E. Richard Smith
    Richard Smith is a son of Frederick W. Smith, the American businessman best known as the founder of FedEx.
  • 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaee29fec81908b07b4fca2922242 completed April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7461f44b08190802290db7a4e6a5e completed May 3, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f749b9b6408190a8a925051ccb2a4a completed May 3, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f74a13463081908ba204f0ec4931d1 completed May 3, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:40 p.m.