Triple

T2620647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Naked and the Dead E58999 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Sergeant Croft
Sergeant Croft is a ruthless, battle-hardened platoon leader in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," embodying the brutal dehumanization of war.
E285986 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: Sergeant Croft | Statement: [The Naked and the Dead, hasMainCharacter, Sergeant Croft]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Croft
Context triple: [The Naked and the Dead, hasMainCharacter, Sergeant Croft]
  • A. Sergeant Ian McKay
    Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
  • B. Lieutenant Vernon
    Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • C. Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
    Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
  • D. Sergeant Fry
    Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • E. Lieutenant Hearn
    Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
  • 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: Sergeant Croft
Triple: [The Naked and the Dead, hasMainCharacter, Sergeant Croft]
Generated description
Sergeant Croft is a ruthless, battle-hardened platoon leader in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," embodying the brutal dehumanization of war.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant Croft
Target entity description: Sergeant Croft is a ruthless, battle-hardened platoon leader in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," embodying the brutal dehumanization of war.
  • A. Sergeant Ian McKay
    Sergeant Ian McKay was a British Army non-commissioned officer posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his exceptional bravery during the Falklands War.
  • B. Lieutenant Vernon
    Lieutenant Vernon is a minor character in the 1858 comedic play "Our American Cousin," which is best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
  • C. Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney
    Sergeant "Mac" MacChesney is a tough, no-nonsense British army sergeant and one of the central military characters in the classic adventure film *Gunga Din*.
  • D. Sergeant Fry
    Sergeant Fry is a minor British military character in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," serving as one of the soldiers connected to the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • E. Lieutenant Hearn
    Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
  • 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_69ab4ac558388190962492cd2e1b0ce6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd897acb481909a976b70304cc30e completed March 7, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af98b50fa08190abe65b53081cb06b completed March 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af999d0b848190afcd7b27daa024e1 completed March 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af9a48b2588190addeef916b0afef2 completed March 10, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.