Triple
T18147587
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Jerome Newton |
E434427
|
entity |
| Predicate | basedOn |
P98
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel) |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel) | Statement: [Thomas Jerome Newton, basedOn, Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel) Context triple: [Thomas Jerome Newton, basedOn, Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel)]
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A.
James Boswell (character in The Fifth Estate)
James Boswell is a fictional character in the film "The Fifth Estate," which dramatizes the rise of WikiLeaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange.
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B.
Mason Verger in Hannibal
Mason Verger in *Hannibal* is a sadistic, disfigured heir to a meatpacking fortune who becomes one of Hannibal Lecter’s most vengeful and depraved adversaries.
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C.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
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D.
Alan Coddington
Alan Coddington was a British economist known for his contributions to macroeconomic theory and the analysis of Keynesian economics.
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E.
CIA officer Jacob Esterline
Jacob Esterline was a senior CIA officer best known for helping plan and oversee covert Cold War operations, including the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel) Target entity description: Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of Walter Tevis’s science fiction novel "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking a way to save his drought-stricken home planet.
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A.
James Boswell (character in The Fifth Estate)
James Boswell is a fictional character in the film "The Fifth Estate," which dramatizes the rise of WikiLeaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange.
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B.
Mason Verger in Hannibal
Mason Verger in *Hannibal* is a sadistic, disfigured heir to a meatpacking fortune who becomes one of Hannibal Lecter’s most vengeful and depraved adversaries.
-
C.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
-
D.
Alan Coddington
Alan Coddington was a British economist known for his contributions to macroeconomic theory and the analysis of Keynesian economics.
-
E.
CIA officer Jacob Esterline
Jacob Esterline was a senior CIA officer best known for helping plan and oversee covert Cold War operations, including the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8b90aac308190801e2c57d8c5bfe5 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4de360ae88190abe1ed13243e9924 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:52 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:29 a.m.