Triple
T23406404
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Midnight Sky |
E559945
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Augustine Lofthouse |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Augustine Lofthouse | Statement: [The Midnight Sky, mainCharacter, Augustine Lofthouse]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustine Lofthouse Context triple: [The Midnight Sky, mainCharacter, Augustine Lofthouse]
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A.
Stephen Langdon
Stephen Langdon was an American Assyriologist and archaeologist known for his early 20th-century excavations in Mesopotamia and his contributions to the study of Sumerian texts and ancient Near Eastern history.
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B.
Reginald Bacon
Reginald Bacon was a British Royal Navy officer and military engineer best known for his leadership of the Dover Patrol during World War I and his contributions to naval gunnery and submarine development.
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C.
Laurence Nowell
Laurence Nowell was a 16th-century English antiquary and scholar of Old English, best known for his pioneering work on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and early English history.
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D.
William Norris
William Norris was an American businessman and computer industry pioneer best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Control Data Corporation, a major mainframe and supercomputer company.
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E.
Thomas Wardle
Thomas Wardle was a 19th-century English silk dyer and industrialist renowned for his innovations in textile dyeing and his collaborations with Arts and Crafts designers such as William Morris.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustine Lofthouse Target entity description: Augustine Lofthouse is the central scientist protagonist in the science fiction film "The Midnight Sky," portrayed as an isolated astronomer racing to warn a returning space crew of a global catastrophe.
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A.
Stephen Langdon
Stephen Langdon was an American Assyriologist and archaeologist known for his early 20th-century excavations in Mesopotamia and his contributions to the study of Sumerian texts and ancient Near Eastern history.
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B.
Reginald Bacon
Reginald Bacon was a British Royal Navy officer and military engineer best known for his leadership of the Dover Patrol during World War I and his contributions to naval gunnery and submarine development.
-
C.
Laurence Nowell
Laurence Nowell was a 16th-century English antiquary and scholar of Old English, best known for his pioneering work on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and early English history.
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D.
William Norris
William Norris was an American businessman and computer industry pioneer best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Control Data Corporation, a major mainframe and supercomputer company.
-
E.
Thomas Wardle
Thomas Wardle was a 19th-century English silk dyer and industrialist renowned for his innovations in textile dyeing and his collaborations with Arts and Crafts designers such as William Morris.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69e2454b3a5881909c64773dc8a5d289 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1a50e607c8190ba0a22e89862a2d9 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 6:28 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:38 p.m.