Triple

T2308386
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In the Heat of the Night E51893 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object John Ball
John Ball was an American novelist best known for creating the character Virgil Tibbs in his crime novel "In the Heat of the Night," which was adapted into the acclaimed 1967 film.
E252785 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: John Ball | Statement: [In the Heat of the Night, basedOnAuthor, John Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ball
Context triple: [In the Heat of the Night, basedOnAuthor, John Ball]
  • A. John Ball
    John Ball was a prominent 19th-century Grand Rapids businessman and landowner whose donated property became the site of the John Ball Zoo.
  • B. Alex Boraine
    Alex Boraine was a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and co-founder and deputy chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, known for his leading role in the country’s transition to democracy.
  • C. John Pym
    John Pym was a leading English parliamentarian and architect of opposition to King Charles I whose leadership in the Long Parliament helped set the stage for the English Civil War.
  • D. Jonathan Hales
    Jonathan Hales is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones" and for his work on the "Young Indiana Jones" television series.
  • E. Matthew Mott
    Matthew Mott is an Australian cricket coach best known for leading successful limited-overs sides, including national teams in white-ball formats.
  • 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: John Ball
Triple: [In the Heat of the Night, basedOnAuthor, John Ball]
Generated description
John Ball was an American novelist best known for creating the character Virgil Tibbs in his crime novel "In the Heat of the Night," which was adapted into the acclaimed 1967 film.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Ball
Target entity description: John Ball was an American novelist best known for creating the character Virgil Tibbs in his crime novel "In the Heat of the Night," which was adapted into the acclaimed 1967 film.
  • A. John Ball
    John Ball was a prominent 19th-century Grand Rapids businessman and landowner whose donated property became the site of the John Ball Zoo.
  • B. Alex Boraine
    Alex Boraine was a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and co-founder and deputy chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, known for his leading role in the country’s transition to democracy.
  • C. John Pym
    John Pym was a leading English parliamentarian and architect of opposition to King Charles I whose leadership in the Long Parliament helped set the stage for the English Civil War.
  • D. Jonathan Hales
    Jonathan Hales is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay of "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones" and for his work on the "Young Indiana Jones" television series.
  • E. Matthew Mott
    Matthew Mott is an Australian cricket coach best known for leading successful limited-overs sides, including national teams in white-ball formats.
  • 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_69a88b0bb30c81908ded03b006d29387 completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc607cf4881908ba4ea2a7f5dedc9 completed March 7, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7f3a007c8190b5c8683ced9d77fa completed March 9, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7fee12ac8190bb9924f7467434a6 completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8061cd348190b0b0b65dcf730f99 completed March 9, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.