Triple

T2620674
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Naked and the Dead E58999 entity
Predicate hasFoilCharacters P42265 FINISHED
Object General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn
General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn are contrasting military officers in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel, embodying opposing views on authority, power, and individual conscience.
E284091 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn | Statement: [The Naked and the Dead, hasFoilCharacters, General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn
Context triple: [The Naked and the Dead, hasFoilCharacters, General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn]
  • A. Colonel Osborne
    Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
  • B. Colonel Smith
    Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
  • C. Colonel Andrew Hynes
    Colonel Andrew Hynes was an early American pioneer and military officer best known for establishing the Kentucky settlement that became Elizabethtown.
  • D. Captain Benjamin L. Willard
    Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
  • E. Captain B. McCrea
    Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
  • 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: General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn
Triple: [The Naked and the Dead, hasFoilCharacters, General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn]
Generated description
General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn are contrasting military officers in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel, embodying opposing views on authority, power, and individual conscience.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn
Target entity description: General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn are contrasting military officers in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel, embodying opposing views on authority, power, and individual conscience.
  • A. Colonel Osborne
    Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
  • B. Colonel Smith
    Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
  • C. Colonel Andrew Hynes
    Colonel Andrew Hynes was an early American pioneer and military officer best known for establishing the Kentucky settlement that became Elizabethtown.
  • D. Captain Benjamin L. Willard
    Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
  • E. Captain B. McCrea
    Captain B. McCrea is the human commander of the spaceship Axiom in Pixar's animated film "WALL-E," who evolves from a complacent caretaker into an active leader determined to restore life on Earth.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasFoilCharacters
Context triple: [The Naked and the Dead, hasFoilCharacters, General Cummings and Lieutenant Hearn]
  • A. featuresCharactersFrom
    Indicates that one entity (such as a work or production) includes or presents characters originating from another entity.
  • B. hasIconicCharacter
    Indicates that something is associated with a character widely recognized as emblematic or highly representative of it.
  • C. hasExpansionSetNumber
    Indicates that an entity is associated with a specific numbered position or identifier within an expansion set.
  • D. hasNotableCardFamily
    Indicates that an entity is associated with a specific, distinguished group or family of related cards.
  • E. hasFictionalForm
    Indicates that an entity has a counterpart or representation that exists within a fictional or imaginary context.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69abdaca581881908fe8d3d820f839b7 completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af908ec0cc8190ab8feb8f237eac4b completed March 10, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af91a3b4588190acfb360dac6e5ce0 completed March 10, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af920b7fcc8190b5a34c7c626a1c5d completed March 10, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69abd80f48888190afdf7e3e042157d0 completed March 7, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69abdac82b688190886a6ec2d6e2abc7 completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.