Triple

T17334696
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea E420906 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Major Duncan
Major Duncan is a fictional military officer who appears as a supporting character in James Fenimore Cooper’s frontier novel "The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea."
E1263175 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: Major Duncan | Statement: [The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea, character, Major Duncan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Duncan
Context triple: [The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea, character, Major Duncan]
  • A. Major Charles Dowling
    Major Charles Dowling was a British intelligence officer and member of the Cairo Gang, the undercover group targeted and largely assassinated by the IRA in Dublin on Bloody Sunday in 1920.
  • B. Major William Campbell
    Major William Campbell was a British military officer known for overseeing the construction and command of frontier fortifications in North America during the late 18th century.
  • C. Major Duncan Heyward
    Major Duncan Heyward is a British army officer and central figure in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Last of the Mohicans," whose sense of duty and honor shape much of the story’s conflict and romance.
  • D. Major Amos Charles Dundee
    Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
  • E. Major William Lauderdale
    Major William Lauderdale was a U.S. Army officer in the Second Seminole War whose leadership in establishing a military post in Florida led to the city of Fort Lauderdale being named in his honor.
  • 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: Major Duncan
Triple: [The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea, character, Major Duncan]
Generated description
Major Duncan is a fictional military officer who appears as a supporting character in James Fenimore Cooper’s frontier novel "The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Duncan
Target entity description: Major Duncan is a fictional military officer who appears as a supporting character in James Fenimore Cooper’s frontier novel "The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea."
  • A. Major Charles Dowling
    Major Charles Dowling was a British intelligence officer and member of the Cairo Gang, the undercover group targeted and largely assassinated by the IRA in Dublin on Bloody Sunday in 1920.
  • B. Major William Campbell
    Major William Campbell was a British military officer known for overseeing the construction and command of frontier fortifications in North America during the late 18th century.
  • C. Major Duncan Heyward
    Major Duncan Heyward is a British army officer and central figure in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Last of the Mohicans," whose sense of duty and honor shape much of the story’s conflict and romance.
  • D. Major Amos Charles Dundee
    Major Amos Charles Dundee is the hard-driven, controversial Union cavalry officer portrayed by Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Western war film "Major Dundee."
  • E. Major William Lauderdale
    Major William Lauderdale was a U.S. Army officer in the Second Seminole War whose leadership in establishing a military post in Florida led to the city of Fort Lauderdale being named in his honor.
  • 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_69d889d3adc881909319f1edb8d2a956 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43a1125d88190b67243b30d93ce1c completed April 19, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a018c5205088190aa724873c6296b1e completed May 11, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a018ed527708190afceae5aaa98c8d5 completed May 11, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a018f694d2c8190a64ca94f74d31155 completed May 11, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:43 a.m.