Triple

T16368573
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Dark of the Sun E397501 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Sergeant Ruffo
Sergeant Ruffo is a key protagonist in the adventure novel and film "The Dark of the Sun," portrayed as a courageous and morally grounded mercenary fighting in the Congo crisis.
E1209232 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: Sergeant Ruffo | Statement: [The Dark of the Sun, mainCharacter, Sergeant Ruffo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Ruffo
Context triple: [The Dark of the Sun, mainCharacter, Sergeant Ruffo]
  • A. Sergeant Proctor
    Sergeant Proctor is a bumbling, sycophantic police officer and comic antagonist from the "Police Academy" film series.
  • B. Sergeant Neff
    Sergeant Neff is a sinister military academy officer in the horror film "Damien: Omen II" who subtly guides and protects the Antichrist, Damien Thorn.
  • C. Sergeant Francis Troy
    Sergeant Francis Troy is a dashing but reckless soldier whose charm, impulsiveness, and moral failings drive much of the romantic and tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
  • D. Sergeant Wilson
    Sergeant Wilson is a genteel, unflappable British Home Guard officer known for his understated charm and dry wit in the Dad's Army franchise.
  • E. Sergeant Calhoun
    Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
  • 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: Sergeant Ruffo
Triple: [The Dark of the Sun, mainCharacter, Sergeant Ruffo]
Generated description
Sergeant Ruffo is a key protagonist in the adventure novel and film "The Dark of the Sun," portrayed as a courageous and morally grounded mercenary fighting in the Congo crisis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Ruffo
Target entity description: Sergeant Ruffo is a key protagonist in the adventure novel and film "The Dark of the Sun," portrayed as a courageous and morally grounded mercenary fighting in the Congo crisis.
  • A. Sergeant Proctor
    Sergeant Proctor is a bumbling, sycophantic police officer and comic antagonist from the "Police Academy" film series.
  • B. Sergeant Neff
    Sergeant Neff is a sinister military academy officer in the horror film "Damien: Omen II" who subtly guides and protects the Antichrist, Damien Thorn.
  • C. Sergeant Francis Troy
    Sergeant Francis Troy is a dashing but reckless soldier whose charm, impulsiveness, and moral failings drive much of the romantic and tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
  • D. Sergeant Wilson
    Sergeant Wilson is a genteel, unflappable British Home Guard officer known for his understated charm and dry wit in the Dad's Army franchise.
  • E. Sergeant Calhoun
    Sergeant Calhoun is a tough, battle-hardened space marine and the heroic commander from the in-game world of "Hero's Duty" in Disney's animated film *Wreck-It Ralph*.
  • 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_69d87f2778dc8190aa95c7572db127e6 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2ff4021e88190ad093bab74cf82a4 completed April 18, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a002dc29f088190ba5d69ff3c12a251 completed May 10, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a002ec2fd948190878af958d0b90ce6 completed May 10, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00312a4fc48190b6bd6ad9db71bb4d completed May 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:08 a.m.