Triple

T14212475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Visit from the Goon Squad E352264 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Bennie Salazar
Bennie Salazar is a record executive and former punk rocker who serves as one of the central, interconnected characters in Jennifer Egan’s novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
E1085956 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: Bennie Salazar | Statement: [A Visit from the Goon Squad, hasCharacter, Bennie Salazar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bennie Salazar
Context triple: [A Visit from the Goon Squad, hasCharacter, Bennie Salazar]
  • A. Felipe Baca
    Felipe Baca was a prominent 19th-century settler and rancher in what is now southeastern Colorado, recognized as an early community leader whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of Baca County.
  • B. Ben Gonzalez
    Ben Gonzalez is a character in the television series "The Flash," known as a friend and associate of Bert "Sock" Wysocki.
  • C. David Muñoz
    David Muñoz is a Spanish screenwriter best known for co-writing Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed gothic horror film "The Devil’s Backbone."
  • D. Chris Espinosa
    Chris Espinosa is a longtime Apple engineer and one of the company’s earliest employees, known for his significant contributions to the original Macintosh and subsequent Apple software projects.
  • E. Allen Maldonado
    Allen Maldonado is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series such as "Black-ish," "The Last O.G.," and the film "Straight Outta Compton."
  • 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: Bennie Salazar
Triple: [A Visit from the Goon Squad, hasCharacter, Bennie Salazar]
Generated description
Bennie Salazar is a record executive and former punk rocker who serves as one of the central, interconnected characters in Jennifer Egan’s novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bennie Salazar
Target entity description: Bennie Salazar is a record executive and former punk rocker who serves as one of the central, interconnected characters in Jennifer Egan’s novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
  • A. Felipe Baca
    Felipe Baca was a prominent 19th-century settler and rancher in what is now southeastern Colorado, recognized as an early community leader whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of Baca County.
  • B. Ben Gonzalez
    Ben Gonzalez is a character in the television series "The Flash," known as a friend and associate of Bert "Sock" Wysocki.
  • C. David Muñoz
    David Muñoz is a Spanish screenwriter best known for co-writing Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed gothic horror film "The Devil’s Backbone."
  • D. Chris Espinosa
    Chris Espinosa is a longtime Apple engineer and one of the company’s earliest employees, known for his significant contributions to the original Macintosh and subsequent Apple software projects.
  • E. Allen Maldonado
    Allen Maldonado is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series such as "Black-ish," "The Last O.G.," and the film "Straight Outta Compton."
  • 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_69d8278a06e481908b5d6af0a8afe737 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de620dba0c8190bb77a1df10e1d3a7 completed April 14, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd19574280819091bafd95a75983bf completed May 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd1a231cbc819083d38e25073892bf completed May 7, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd1ada47788190afcf8078d76ef339 completed May 7, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:05 a.m.