Triple

T15741153
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart E381604 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Duke Courtney
Duke Courtney is a central character in Joyce Carol Oates's novel "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart," whose life becomes entangled in themes of race, class, and violence in mid-20th-century America.
E1174189 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: Duke Courtney | Statement: [Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, featuresCharacter, Duke Courtney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duke Courtney
Context triple: [Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, featuresCharacter, Duke Courtney]
  • A. Robert Dukes
    Robert Dukes is an author best known for writing the second installment of the "Bound" series.
  • B. Duke Evers
    Duke Evers is a man known primarily as the grandfather-in-law of Donnie.
  • C. Mortimer Duke
    Mortimer Duke is a wealthy, manipulative commodities broker and one of the scheming Duke brothers in the 1983 comedy film "Trading Places."
  • D. John Ridgely
    John Ridgely was an American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films, particularly crime dramas and film noirs.
  • E. William Brandon
    William Brandon is a fictional character from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel "Paul Clifford," notable for his role within the book’s exploration of crime, justice, and social hypocrisy.
  • 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: Duke Courtney
Triple: [Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, featuresCharacter, Duke Courtney]
Generated description
Duke Courtney is a central character in Joyce Carol Oates's novel "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart," whose life becomes entangled in themes of race, class, and violence in mid-20th-century America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duke Courtney
Target entity description: Duke Courtney is a central character in Joyce Carol Oates's novel "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart," whose life becomes entangled in themes of race, class, and violence in mid-20th-century America.
  • A. Robert Dukes
    Robert Dukes is an author best known for writing the second installment of the "Bound" series.
  • B. Duke Evers
    Duke Evers is a man known primarily as the grandfather-in-law of Donnie.
  • C. Mortimer Duke
    Mortimer Duke is a wealthy, manipulative commodities broker and one of the scheming Duke brothers in the 1983 comedy film "Trading Places."
  • D. John Ridgely
    John Ridgely was an American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films, particularly crime dramas and film noirs.
  • E. William Brandon
    William Brandon is a fictional character from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel "Paul Clifford," notable for his role within the book’s exploration of crime, justice, and social hypocrisy.
  • 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_69d86d9cdb648190bf3171be0bd7d872 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04fd97d6c8190b2fa6ca422bfe512 completed April 16, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff83056aa0819098b757ed125e61fe completed May 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff83ca33d08190816130bf2ea735df completed May 9, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff846436e48190b711da134c9a3b81 completed May 9, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m.