Triple
T1748447
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Wire |
E38386
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Avon Barksdale
Avon Barksdale is a powerful and calculating Baltimore drug kingpin who serves as one of the central crime bosses in the television series "The Wire."
|
E195796
|
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: Avon Barksdale | Statement: [The Wire, mainCharacter, Avon Barksdale]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Avon Barksdale Context triple: [The Wire, mainCharacter, Avon Barksdale]
-
A.
Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale is an American business executive best known for serving as CEO of Netscape during the early commercial growth of the internet.
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B.
Joe Starks
Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
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C.
Joe Trace
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
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D.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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E.
Demond Wilson
Demond Wilson is an American actor and author best known for his role as Lamont Sanford on the 1970s sitcom "Sanford and Son."
- 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: Avon Barksdale Triple: [The Wire, mainCharacter, Avon Barksdale]
Generated description
Avon Barksdale is a powerful and calculating Baltimore drug kingpin who serves as one of the central crime bosses in the television series "The Wire."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Avon Barksdale Target entity description: Avon Barksdale is a powerful and calculating Baltimore drug kingpin who serves as one of the central crime bosses in the television series "The Wire."
-
A.
Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale is an American business executive best known for serving as CEO of Netscape during the early commercial growth of the internet.
-
B.
Joe Starks
Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
-
C.
Joe Trace
Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
-
D.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
-
E.
Demond Wilson
Demond Wilson is an American actor and author best known for his role as Lamont Sanford on the 1970s sitcom "Sanford and Son."
- 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_69a8862b01a48190ab47209063af82d9 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aa63ee4d2081909dfd6d3244228c56 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 5:19 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ada0e21e58819082943212bd725581 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ada1a2122481909c7a3470e090af17 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:19 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ada23515d08190833ad1a35bb7a265 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:22 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.