Triple

T1714551
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject It (novel) E37260 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Ben Hanscom
Ben Hanscom is one of the central members of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for his intelligence, kindness, and pivotal role in confronting the creature terrorizing Derry.
E273096 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: Ben Hanscom | Statement: [It (novel), protagonist, Ben Hanscom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Hanscom
Context triple: [It (novel), protagonist, Ben Hanscom]
  • A. Alex Hannum
    Alex Hannum was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for leading multiple teams, including the St. Louis Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers, to NBA championships.
  • B. Ed Hartnett
    Ed Hartnett is an American software developer best known as the creator and primary maintainer of the NetCDF-4 library widely used in scientific computing and data analysis.
  • C. Will Adams
    Will Adams is the birth name of will.i.am, the American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member of the Black Eyed Peas.
  • D. James McDermott
    James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
  • E. Hal Bidlack
    Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
  • 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: Ben Hanscom
Triple: [It (novel), protagonist, Ben Hanscom]
Generated description
Ben Hanscom is one of the central members of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for his intelligence, kindness, and pivotal role in confronting the creature terrorizing Derry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Hanscom
Target entity description: Ben Hanscom is one of the central members of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for his intelligence, kindness, and pivotal role in confronting the creature terrorizing Derry.
  • A. Alex Hannum
    Alex Hannum was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for leading multiple teams, including the St. Louis Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers, to NBA championships.
  • B. Ed Hartnett
    Ed Hartnett is an American software developer best known as the creator and primary maintainer of the NetCDF-4 library widely used in scientific computing and data analysis.
  • C. Will Adams
    Will Adams is the birth name of will.i.am, the American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member of the Black Eyed Peas.
  • D. James McDermott
    James McDermott is a character in Margaret Atwood’s novel *Alias Grace*, depicted as a fellow servant whose murder becomes central to the story’s infamous crime.
  • E. Hal Bidlack
    Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
  • 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_69a8861912dc8190931af43b4b9158a7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa633349248190822e560fde817fc7 completed March 6, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af1f6a15f081909b83d24a7b470eba completed March 9, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af20bcdc448190987350d28a525153 completed March 9, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af2131ed6c81908dcce0d0d4e14bec completed March 9, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.