Triple

T16018991
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rain on the Dead E388547 entity
Predicate hasProtagonistRole P21567 FINISHED
Object Sean Dillon as former IRA enforcer turned government operative
Sean Dillon is a fictional ex-IRA enforcer who becomes a skilled and morally ambiguous covert operative working for the British government in Jack Higgins’s thriller novels.
E1190359 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: Sean Dillon as former IRA enforcer turned government operative | Statement: [Rain on the Dead, hasProtagonistRole, Sean Dillon as former IRA enforcer turned government operative]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sean Dillon as former IRA enforcer turned government operative
Context triple: [Rain on the Dead, hasProtagonistRole, Sean Dillon as former IRA enforcer turned government operative]
  • A. James Dillon
    James Dillon was an Irish politician who led the Fine Gael party and served as a prominent member of Dáil Éireann in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke
    Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke is the central Secret Service agent protagonist in the mystery–sci-fi television series "Wayward Pines," whose investigation into a small town uncovers disturbing and surreal secrets.
  • C. Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints
    Connor MacManus in *The Boondock Saints* is one of two Irish-American vigilante brothers who embark on a bloody crusade against organized crime in Boston.
  • D. Gavan Duffy
    Gavan Duffy is the surname of George Gavan Duffy, an Irish politician, lawyer, and signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty who later served as a judge.
  • E. Gavan O'Herlihy
    Gavan O'Herlihy was an Irish-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in genre and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • 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: Sean Dillon as former IRA enforcer turned government operative
Triple: [Rain on the Dead, hasProtagonistRole, Sean Dillon as former IRA enforcer turned government operative]
Generated description
Sean Dillon is a fictional ex-IRA enforcer who becomes a skilled and morally ambiguous covert operative working for the British government in Jack Higgins’s thriller novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sean Dillon as former IRA enforcer turned government operative
Target entity description: Sean Dillon is a fictional ex-IRA enforcer who becomes a skilled and morally ambiguous covert operative working for the British government in Jack Higgins’s thriller novels.
  • A. James Dillon
    James Dillon was an Irish politician who led the Fine Gael party and served as a prominent member of Dáil Éireann in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke
    Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke is the central Secret Service agent protagonist in the mystery–sci-fi television series "Wayward Pines," whose investigation into a small town uncovers disturbing and surreal secrets.
  • C. Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints
    Connor MacManus in *The Boondock Saints* is one of two Irish-American vigilante brothers who embark on a bloody crusade against organized crime in Boston.
  • D. Gavan Duffy
    Gavan Duffy is the surname of George Gavan Duffy, an Irish politician, lawyer, and signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty who later served as a judge.
  • E. Gavan O'Herlihy
    Gavan O'Herlihy was an Irish-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in genre and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • 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_69d86dabcb7c8190b6a39d6831d2fa1b completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e18296a7008190b72ab2ab02d0fbc9 completed April 17, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffcf2a4b0c819094f629c65cf8f880 completed May 10, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffcfb02b208190b961b525a29b02a5 completed May 10, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffd8e7b94c819093bc23288900df33 completed May 10, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:55 a.m.