Triple

T1748453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Wire E38386 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Bubbles
Bubbles is a resourceful, drug-addicted police informant in the television series "The Wire," known for his street smarts, moral complexity, and poignant personal struggles.
 E195797 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: Bubbles | Statement: [The Wire, mainCharacter, Bubbles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bubbles
Context triple: [The Wire, mainCharacter, Bubbles]
  • A. Bubbles
    Bubbles is a famous late-19th-century painting by John Everett Millais, best known for its sentimental depiction of a young boy blowing soap bubbles.
  • B. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
    "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" is a popular early 20th-century song that has become famously associated with English football club West Ham United as their traditional supporters' anthem.
  • C. Dighty Water
    Dighty Water is a small river in Angus, Scotland, that flows through the Monifieth and Dundee area before entering the Firth of Tay.
  • D. Bink!
    Bink! is an American hip-hop record producer known for his soulful, hard-hitting beats and work with artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rick Ross.
  • E. Plon-Plon
    Plon-Plon was the popular nickname of Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte, a 19th-century French imperial prince and cousin of Emperor Napoleon III.
  • 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: Bubbles
Triple: [The Wire, mainCharacter, Bubbles]
Generated description
Bubbles is a resourceful, drug-addicted police informant in the television series "The Wire," known for his street smarts, moral complexity, and poignant personal struggles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Bubbles
Target entity description: Bubbles is a resourceful, drug-addicted police informant in the television series "The Wire," known for his street smarts, moral complexity, and poignant personal struggles.
  • A. Bubbles
    Bubbles is a famous late-19th-century painting by John Everett Millais, best known for its sentimental depiction of a young boy blowing soap bubbles.
  • B. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
    "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" is a popular early 20th-century song that has become famously associated with English football club West Ham United as their traditional supporters' anthem.
  • C. Dighty Water
    Dighty Water is a small river in Angus, Scotland, that flows through the Monifieth and Dundee area before entering the Firth of Tay.
  • D. Bink!
    Bink! is an American hip-hop record producer known for his soulful, hard-hitting beats and work with artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rick Ross.
  • E. Plon-Plon
    Plon-Plon was the popular nickname of Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte, a 19th-century French imperial prince and cousin of Emperor Napoleon III.
  • 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.