Triple

T2173332
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Apocalypse Now E48471 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
 E244396 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: Captain Benjamin L. Willard | Statement: [Apocalypse Now, character, Captain Benjamin L. Willard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Context triple: [Apocalypse Now, character, Captain Benjamin L. Willard]
  • A. Captain Thomas Lathrop
    Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
  • B. Commandant William Ward Burrows
    Commandant William Ward Burrows was the second Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, noted for shaping the early Corps’ organization and establishing key institutions in its formative years.
  • C. Captain John H. Miller
    Captain John H. Miller is the fictional World War II U.S. Army officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," known for leading a perilous mission to find and bring home Private James Ryan.
  • D. Captain Frederick C. Bock
    Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  • E. Captain B. McCrea
    Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
  • 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: Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Triple: [Apocalypse Now, character, Captain Benjamin L. Willard]
Generated description
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Target entity description: Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
  • A. Captain Thomas Lathrop
    Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
  • B. Commandant William Ward Burrows
    Commandant William Ward Burrows was the second Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, noted for shaping the early Corps’ organization and establishing key institutions in its formative years.
  • C. Captain John H. Miller
    Captain John H. Miller is the fictional World War II U.S. Army officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," known for leading a perilous mission to find and bring home Private James Ryan.
  • D. Captain Frederick C. Bock
    Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  • E. Captain B. McCrea
    Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
  • 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_69a88aa3faa48190995b233af6525815 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbecb97a48190834e3e536184bbd1 completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae653b6ae48190ab5c7e6bf2dcfa6f completed March 9, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae66411d848190a529018ad3765597 completed March 9, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae66a751f881908fda164de72dac9b completed March 9, 2026, 6:20 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.