Triple
T23440022
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | In the Company of Men |
E565369
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasCharacter |
P2308
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Howard |
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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: Howard | Statement: [In the Company of Men, hasCharacter, Howard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Context triple: [In the Company of Men, hasCharacter, Howard]
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A.
Howard
Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
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B.
Howard
Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
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C.
Howard
Howard is a young boy who serves as a minor but symbolically important character in the play "Inherit the Wind," representing the town’s impressionable youth amid the evolution-versus-creationism trial.
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D.
Howard
Howard is the middle name of Robert H. Grubbs, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his work on olefin metathesis.
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E.
Howard
Howard is a character in Kenneth Lonergan's play "The Waverly Gallery," serving as a key figure in the story's exploration of family, memory, and aging.
- 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: Howard Target entity description: Howard is a central character in the dark satirical film "In the Company of Men," which explores themes of misogyny, corporate cruelty, and emotional manipulation.
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A.
Howard
Howard is a character in Kenneth Lonergan's play "The Waverly Gallery," serving as a key figure in the story's exploration of family, memory, and aging.
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B.
Howard
Howard is the protagonist of the horror novel "The Keep," around whom the story’s supernatural and psychological events revolve.
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C.
Howard
Howard is a young boy who serves as a minor but symbolically important character in the play "Inherit the Wind," representing the town’s impressionable youth amid the evolution-versus-creationism trial.
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D.
Howard
Howard is a fictional character best known as the romantic interest of Marina in their shared narrative.
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E.
Howard
Howard is a seasoned, wise old prospector in the classic 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," known for his experience, moral insight, and pivotal role in the gold-hunting expedition.
- 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_69e24584f9488190bb32730bd2ce023e |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1a5df28288190936f16b017a20bc0 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 6:31 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:50 p.m.