Triple

T1878867
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Talented Mr. Ripley E39805 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Tom Ripley
Tom Ripley is a charming yet deeply amoral con artist and serial imposter best known as the psychologically complex antihero of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novels.
E209410 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: Tom Ripley | Statement: [The Talented Mr. Ripley, mainCharacter, Tom Ripley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Ripley
Context triple: [The Talented Mr. Ripley, mainCharacter, Tom Ripley]
  • A. Thomas Ripley
    Thomas Ripley was an 18th-century English architect and master carpenter known for his work on prominent country houses and public buildings, including contributions to Palladian architecture.
  • B. Hannibal Lecter
    Hannibal Lecter is a brilliant but psychopathic cannibalistic serial killer and psychiatrist, best known as the chilling antagonist in Thomas Harris’s novels and their film adaptations.
  • C. Travis Bickle
    Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
  • D. Paul Sheldon
    Paul Sheldon is a fictional novelist and the tormented protagonist of Stephen King’s psychological horror novel "Misery."
  • E. Michael Cage
    Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • 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: Tom Ripley
Triple: [The Talented Mr. Ripley, mainCharacter, Tom Ripley]
Generated description
Tom Ripley is a charming yet deeply amoral con artist and serial imposter best known as the psychologically complex antihero of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Ripley
Target entity description: Tom Ripley is a charming yet deeply amoral con artist and serial imposter best known as the psychologically complex antihero of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novels.
  • A. Thomas Ripley
    Thomas Ripley was an 18th-century English architect and master carpenter known for his work on prominent country houses and public buildings, including contributions to Palladian architecture.
  • B. Hannibal Lecter
    Hannibal Lecter is a brilliant but psychopathic cannibalistic serial killer and psychiatrist, best known as the chilling antagonist in Thomas Harris’s novels and their film adaptations.
  • C. Travis Bickle
    Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
  • D. Paul Sheldon
    Paul Sheldon is a fictional novelist and the tormented protagonist of Stephen King’s psychological horror novel "Misery."
  • E. Michael Cage
    Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • 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_69a88633e4fc8190b7eb40463e048ec5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb0f8e9f08190a210440823fad69e completed March 7, 2026, 5 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69addf59a5b48190bb4b47641681ebb7 completed March 8, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69addfe46b388190b319043170253701 completed March 8, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ade08d0ce0819097beb901dbb39d89 completed March 8, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.