Triple
T21522411
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Greatest Show on Earth |
E531006
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Buttons the Clown |
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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: Buttons the Clown | Statement: [The Greatest Show on Earth, mainCharacter, Buttons the Clown]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buttons the Clown Context triple: [The Greatest Show on Earth, mainCharacter, Buttons the Clown]
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A.
Buttons the Clown
chosen
Buttons the Clown is a central character in the 1952 circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth," portrayed as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup and hides a troubled past.
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B.
Clowns
"Clowns" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she uses elaborate costumes and makeup to explore identity, performance, and the unsettling aspects of clown imagery.
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C.
The Dancing Clown
The Dancing Clown is the terrifying, clown-shaped guise of Pennywise, the ancient evil entity that preys on children in Stephen King’s horror novel "It."
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D.
Fancy Clown
"Fancy Clown" is a track by the hip-hop duo Madvillain, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and MF DOOM's distinctive delivery over Madlib's experimental production.
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E.
The Clown
The Clown is a 1963 novel by German author Heinrich Böll that follows a disillusioned clown in postwar Germany as he confronts personal failure, religious hypocrisy, and societal guilt.
- 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_69e0c45d95a081908e7962ad215da746 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ee884db3ac81909e77d22d607ac72d |
completed | April 26, 2026, 9:49 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:26 p.m.