Triple

T14594577
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Man Who Fell to Earth E342524 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Thomas Jerome Newton
Thomas Jerome Newton is a mysterious, humanoid alien who comes to Earth seeking water for his drought-stricken home planet in the science fiction story "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
E1109039 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: Thomas Jerome Newton | Statement: [The Man Who Fell to Earth, mainCharacter, Thomas Jerome Newton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jerome Newton
Context triple: [The Man Who Fell to Earth, mainCharacter, Thomas Jerome Newton]
  • A. Charles Harrison Mason
    Charles Harrison Mason was an influential African American Holiness–Pentecostal minister who became the leading figure of early Pentecostalism in the United States.
  • B. Simon Newcomb
    Simon Newcomb was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician renowned for his work in celestial mechanics, astronomical constants, and early studies of what became known as Benford's law.
  • C. James Challis
    James Challis was a 19th-century English clergyman and astronomer best known for his role as director of the Cambridge Observatory during the period of the predicted discovery of Neptune.
  • D. Augustus Short
    Augustus Short was a 19th-century Anglican bishop who became the first Bishop of Adelaide and played a key role in establishing the Church of England and educational institutions in South Australia.
  • E. A. Langley
    A. Langley is a computer security and cryptography expert known for contributions to modern internet security protocols and standards.
  • 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: Thomas Jerome Newton
Triple: [The Man Who Fell to Earth, mainCharacter, Thomas Jerome Newton]
Generated description
Thomas Jerome Newton is a mysterious, humanoid alien who comes to Earth seeking water for his drought-stricken home planet in the science fiction story "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jerome Newton
Target entity description: Thomas Jerome Newton is a mysterious, humanoid alien who comes to Earth seeking water for his drought-stricken home planet in the science fiction story "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
  • A. Charles Harrison Mason
    Charles Harrison Mason was an influential African American Holiness–Pentecostal minister who became the leading figure of early Pentecostalism in the United States.
  • B. Simon Newcomb
    Simon Newcomb was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician renowned for his work in celestial mechanics, astronomical constants, and early studies of what became known as Benford's law.
  • C. James Challis
    James Challis was a 19th-century English clergyman and astronomer best known for his role as director of the Cambridge Observatory during the period of the predicted discovery of Neptune.
  • D. Augustus Short
    Augustus Short was a 19th-century Anglican bishop who became the first Bishop of Adelaide and played a key role in establishing the Church of England and educational institutions in South Australia.
  • E. A. Langley
    A. Langley is a computer security and cryptography expert known for contributions to modern internet security protocols and standards.
  • 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_69d822ddc0f081909cd8163c7de298cd completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb43480d8819084a707e56da2c237 completed April 14, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd94c60448819098cfab7dd292f0cd completed May 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd988f734481908ca4960a69fc2b2a completed May 8, 2026, 8:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd9a30a73c8190877d5d0ada2e21ca completed May 8, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:24 a.m.