Triple

T3051220
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fences (2016 film) E83574 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Troy Maxson
Troy Maxson is a bitter, charismatic former Negro League baseball player turned garbage collector whose struggles with racism, responsibility, and family define the emotional core of August Wilson’s story "Fences."
E322227 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: Troy Maxson | Statement: [Fences (2016 film), mainCharacter, Troy Maxson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Troy Maxson
Context triple: [Fences (2016 film), mainCharacter, Troy Maxson]
  • A. Cleveland Brown
    Cleveland Brown is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken neighbor and friend of Peter Griffin who later became the star of the spin-off animated sitcom "The Cleveland Show."
  • B. Joe Trace
    Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
  • C. Joe Starks
    Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
  • D. Henry Blanke
    Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • E. Cleveland Brown Jr.
    Cleveland Brown Jr. is a fictional character from the animated sitcom universe of Family Guy, known as Cleveland Brown's soft-spoken, overweight teenage son who becomes a central figure in The Cleveland Show.
  • 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: Troy Maxson
Triple: [Fences (2016 film), mainCharacter, Troy Maxson]
Generated description
Troy Maxson is a bitter, charismatic former Negro League baseball player turned garbage collector whose struggles with racism, responsibility, and family define the emotional core of August Wilson’s story "Fences."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Troy Maxson
Target entity description: Troy Maxson is a bitter, charismatic former Negro League baseball player turned garbage collector whose struggles with racism, responsibility, and family define the emotional core of August Wilson’s story "Fences."
  • A. Cleveland Brown
    Cleveland Brown is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken neighbor and friend of Peter Griffin who later became the star of the spin-off animated sitcom "The Cleveland Show."
  • B. Joe Trace
    Joe Trace is a middle-aged cosmetics salesman in Harlem whose passionate affair and its violent aftermath drive the intertwined stories of Toni Morrison’s novel "Jazz."
  • C. Joe Starks
    Joe Starks is an ambitious, charismatic, and controlling husband in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," whose rise to power in Eatonville profoundly shapes Janie Crawford’s journey toward independence.
  • D. Henry Blanke
    Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • E. Cleveland Brown Jr.
    Cleveland Brown Jr. is a fictional character from the animated sitcom universe of Family Guy, known as Cleveland Brown's soft-spoken, overweight teenage son who becomes a central figure in The Cleveland Show.
  • 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_69ad8b24924c8190a9bb6f61d519e4ae completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9bf274f88190a759f9ce3da47c35 completed March 8, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1eefa84f08190a178cc0674d8a3ab completed March 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1ef69d49c81908caa41a80718896b completed March 11, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f05e44e08190be8b194938b6c1c7 completed March 11, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.