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]
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A.
Harold Shawn
Harold Shawn is the son of Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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*.
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A.
Harold Shawn
Harold Shawn is the son of Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid.
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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."
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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.