Triple

T2405512
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christian Bale E50267 entity
Predicate portrayedCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman is the psychopathic Wall Street investment banker and unreliable narrator at the center of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel "American Psycho" and its film adaptation.
E264226 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: Patrick Bateman | Statement: [Christian Bale, portrayedCharacter, Patrick Bateman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Bateman
Context triple: [Christian Bale, portrayedCharacter, Patrick Bateman]
  • A. Tom Ripley
    Tom Ripley is a charming yet deeply amoral con artist and serial imposter best known as the psychologically complex antihero of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novels.
  • B. Seymour Durst
    Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
  • C. Thomas Ripley
    Thomas Ripley was an 18th-century English architect and master carpenter known for his work on prominent country houses and public buildings, including contributions to Palladian architecture.
  • D. Travis Bickle
    Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
  • E. Michael Cage
    Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • 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: Patrick Bateman
Triple: [Christian Bale, portrayedCharacter, Patrick Bateman]
Generated description
Patrick Bateman is the psychopathic Wall Street investment banker and unreliable narrator at the center of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel "American Psycho" and its film adaptation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Bateman
Target entity description: Patrick Bateman is the psychopathic Wall Street investment banker and unreliable narrator at the center of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel "American Psycho" and its film adaptation.
  • A. Tom Ripley
    Tom Ripley is a charming yet deeply amoral con artist and serial imposter best known as the psychologically complex antihero of Patricia Highsmith’s crime novels.
  • B. Seymour Durst
    Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
  • C. Thomas Ripley
    Thomas Ripley was an 18th-century English architect and master carpenter known for his work on prominent country houses and public buildings, including contributions to Palladian architecture.
  • D. Travis Bickle
    Travis Bickle is the mentally unstable, alienated Vietnam War veteran who becomes a vigilante in Martin Scorsese’s film "Taxi Driver."
  • E. Michael Cage
    Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • 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_69a88b0339a88190a1207333cd271cc9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc8fb78408190b99fa8b4dfaaa75d completed March 7, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3e95334819093923b0c36b968f2 completed March 9, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb7b2d8f88190a12ce00000735fd6 completed March 9, 2026, 12:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb827504c8190bd458e79193d51cc completed March 9, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:58 p.m.