Triple
T21263131
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kurtz |
E524053
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entity |
| Predicate | inspired |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now | Statement: [Kurtz, inspired, Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now Context triple: [Kurtz, inspired, Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now]
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A.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard in Apocalypse Now
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the troubled U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission into Cambodia to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now.
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B.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket is the brutally intense and verbally abusive Marine drill instructor who embodies the dehumanizing rigor of boot camp training in Stanley Kubrick’s war film.
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C.
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
chosen
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz is the enigmatic, rogue U.S. Army Special Forces officer who becomes a godlike, tyrannical figure in the Cambodian jungle in Francis Ford Coppola’s film *Apocalypse Now*.
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D.
Kurtz
Kurtz is the enigmatic and morally corrupted ivory trader whose descent into madness embodies the central themes of imperialism and darkness in Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness."
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E.
Kurtz
Kurtz is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as philosophy, literature, and entertainment.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69e0b5156d7881909bd4f83676590715 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e735e9b2788190b834ba38367fb6c7 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 8:31 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4 p.m.