Triple

T15038739
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hal Incandenza E378545 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Harold James Incandenza
Harold James "Hal" Incandenza is a gifted junior tennis prodigy and linguistically brilliant yet emotionally troubled teenager in David Foster Wallace’s novel *Infinite Jest*.
E1133206 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: Harold James Incandenza | Statement: [Hal Incandenza, fullName, Harold James Incandenza]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold James Incandenza
Context triple: [Hal Incandenza, fullName, Harold James Incandenza]
  • A. Harold Shawn
    Harold Shawn is the son of Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid.
  • B. Harold Sylvester
    Harold Sylvester is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, including a recurring part on the sitcom "Married... with Children."
  • C. Harold Vick
    Harold Vick was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist known for his soulful hard bop and soul-jazz work as both a bandleader and sideman in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Harold Shannon
    Harold Shannon was a Canadian sports executive known for being one of the owners involved with the Toronto Huskies professional basketball team in the 1940s.
  • E. Harold Wolpe
    Harold Wolpe was a South African anti-apartheid activist, lawyer, and Marxist sociologist known for his influential analyses of race, class, and the apartheid state.
  • 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: Harold James Incandenza
Triple: [Hal Incandenza, fullName, Harold James Incandenza]
Generated description
Harold James "Hal" Incandenza is a gifted junior tennis prodigy and linguistically brilliant yet emotionally troubled teenager in David Foster Wallace’s novel *Infinite Jest*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold James Incandenza
Target entity description: Harold James "Hal" Incandenza is a gifted junior tennis prodigy and linguistically brilliant yet emotionally troubled teenager in David Foster Wallace’s novel *Infinite Jest*.
  • A. Harold Shawn
    Harold Shawn is the son of Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid.
  • B. Harold Sylvester
    Harold Sylvester is an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, including a recurring part on the sitcom "Married... with Children."
  • C. Harold Vick
    Harold Vick was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist known for his soulful hard bop and soul-jazz work as both a bandleader and sideman in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Harold Shannon
    Harold Shannon was a Canadian sports executive known for being one of the owners involved with the Toronto Huskies professional basketball team in the 1940s.
  • E. Harold Wolpe
    Harold Wolpe was a South African anti-apartheid activist, lawyer, and Marxist sociologist known for his influential analyses of race, class, and the apartheid state.
  • 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_69d85cd46b2c819090d054c27787f677 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded82cf3848190b0b2b6c9e65bc70b completed April 15, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe9de1c3a48190a9b3959a95627175 completed May 9, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe9fdba3c48190b1d370f7c066801f completed May 9, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fea0b87db881909607bcf0df5b0979 completed May 9, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:59 a.m.