Triple

T1678442
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject War Horse E36284 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
E190437 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: Captain Nicholls | Statement: [War Horse, character, Captain Nicholls]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Nicholls
Context triple: [War Horse, character, Captain Nicholls]
  • A. Captain Englehorn
    Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
  • B. Captain Richard Pearson
    Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Captain Vidal
    Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
  • D. Captain Ed Mercer
    Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • E. Captain Lemuel Moody
    Captain Lemuel Moody was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur from Portland, Maine, best known for commissioning and overseeing the construction of the historic Portland Observatory.
  • 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: Captain Nicholls
Triple: [War Horse, character, Captain Nicholls]
Generated description
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Nicholls
Target entity description: Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • A. Captain Englehorn
    Captain Englehorn is the German skipper of the ship Venture in the King Kong franchise, known for transporting filmmaker Carl Denham to Skull Island.
  • B. Captain Richard Pearson
    Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Captain Vidal
    Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
  • D. Captain Ed Mercer
    Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • E. Captain Lemuel Moody
    Captain Lemuel Moody was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur from Portland, Maine, best known for commissioning and overseeing the construction of the historic Portland Observatory.
  • 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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa625f7e1081909c3c4fe76625783a completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71ba4db08190a532fb334fd0cd23 completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad73cfce488190b0ed6b85713281d3 completed March 8, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad74401cbc8190bfaba1e9f32810bc completed March 8, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.