Triple

T1714651
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Green Mile E37262 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Brutus "Brutal" Howell
Brutus "Brutal" Howell is a compassionate and level-headed prison guard in Stephen King’s story "The Green Mile," known for his loyalty to his fellow officers and humane treatment of death row inmates.
E192789 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: Brutus "Brutal" Howell | Statement: [The Green Mile, mainCharacter, Brutus "Brutal" Howell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brutus "Brutal" Howell
Context triple: [The Green Mile, mainCharacter, Brutus "Brutal" Howell]
  • A. Cassius Brown
    Cassius Brown is a member of the Houston-Brown family, known publicly as a step-sibling of the late Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.
  • B. Charles McEvers Jr.
    Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • C. Boston Corbett
    Boston Corbett was a Union Army sergeant best known for fatally shooting John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • D. Hazard Stevens
    Hazard Stevens was a 19th-century American soldier, politician, and mountaineer best known for making the first documented ascent of Mount Rainier.
  • E. Frankito Wright
    Frankito Wright is the son of Tré Cool, the drummer of the American punk rock band Green Day.
  • 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: Brutus "Brutal" Howell
Triple: [The Green Mile, mainCharacter, Brutus "Brutal" Howell]
Generated description
Brutus "Brutal" Howell is a compassionate and level-headed prison guard in Stephen King’s story "The Green Mile," known for his loyalty to his fellow officers and humane treatment of death row inmates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brutus "Brutal" Howell
Target entity description: Brutus "Brutal" Howell is a compassionate and level-headed prison guard in Stephen King’s story "The Green Mile," known for his loyalty to his fellow officers and humane treatment of death row inmates.
  • A. Cassius Brown
    Cassius Brown is a member of the Houston-Brown family, known publicly as a step-sibling of the late Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.
  • B. Charles McEvers Jr.
    Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • C. Boston Corbett
    Boston Corbett was a Union Army sergeant best known for fatally shooting John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • D. Hazard Stevens
    Hazard Stevens was a 19th-century American soldier, politician, and mountaineer best known for making the first documented ascent of Mount Rainier.
  • E. Frankito Wright
    Frankito Wright is the son of Tré Cool, the drummer of the American punk rock band Green Day.
  • 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_69ad8ae10a048190b7a39e4fb4fbe224 completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad957adf1c8190b7c8656c1984f998 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97af6b388190b2af293599108df3 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.