Triple

T13648802
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The City and the Pillar E326673 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Jim Willard
Jim Willard is the young, athletic protagonist of Gore Vidal’s novel "The City and the Pillar," whose coming-of-age story explores themes of homosexuality, identity, and societal repression in mid-20th-century America.
E1168947 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: Jim Willard | Statement: [The City and the Pillar, mainCharacter, Jim Willard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Willard
Context triple: [The City and the Pillar, mainCharacter, Jim Willard]
  • A. Charles Gilkey
    Charles Gilkey was a person significant enough in polar or geological exploration or research to have the Antarctic Gilkey Glacier named in his honor.
  • B. Bill Wittliff
    Bill Wittliff was an American screenwriter, author, and photographer best known for adapting and writing acclaimed Western-themed films and television miniseries.
  • C. Donald Blye
    Donald Blye is a character in the television series "NCIS: Los Angeles," known primarily as the father of Special Agent Kensi Blye and a former Marine whose mysterious past plays a key role in her backstory.
  • D. Jim Barnhill
    Jim Barnhill was an American football official best known for serving as a referee in the American Football League during the 1960s.
  • E. George LaVoo
    George LaVoo is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for his work on independent films, including the acclaimed coming-of-age drama "Real Women Have Curves."
  • 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: Jim Willard
Triple: [The City and the Pillar, mainCharacter, Jim Willard]
Generated description
Jim Willard is the young, athletic protagonist of Gore Vidal’s novel "The City and the Pillar," whose coming-of-age story explores themes of homosexuality, identity, and societal repression in mid-20th-century America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Willard
Target entity description: Jim Willard is the young, athletic protagonist of Gore Vidal’s novel "The City and the Pillar," whose coming-of-age story explores themes of homosexuality, identity, and societal repression in mid-20th-century America.
  • A. Charles Gilkey
    Charles Gilkey was a person significant enough in polar or geological exploration or research to have the Antarctic Gilkey Glacier named in his honor.
  • B. Bill Wittliff
    Bill Wittliff was an American screenwriter, author, and photographer best known for adapting and writing acclaimed Western-themed films and television miniseries.
  • C. Donald Blye
    Donald Blye is a character in the television series "NCIS: Los Angeles," known primarily as the father of Special Agent Kensi Blye and a former Marine whose mysterious past plays a key role in her backstory.
  • D. Jim Barnhill
    Jim Barnhill was an American football official best known for serving as a referee in the American Football League during the 1960s.
  • E. George LaVoo
    George LaVoo is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for his work on independent films, including the acclaimed coming-of-age drama "Real Women Have Curves."
  • 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_69d8076d8270819092afc2f0e9c359a8 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbc608466c81908f6d2c9c92cc86aa completed April 12, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff677935408190a28af4cd34d82aa4 completed May 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff67f64d2c81908fd2d8a09cd0b369 completed May 9, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff6888a85481909e8cdd34ed230fa4 completed May 9, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:52 p.m.