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]
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.