Triple

T3066298
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Beauty E62110 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Colonel Frank Fitts
Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
E322782 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: Colonel Frank Fitts | Statement: [American Beauty, character, Colonel Frank Fitts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Frank Fitts
Context triple: [American Beauty, character, Colonel Frank Fitts]
  • A. Colonel Andrew Hynes
    Colonel Andrew Hynes was an early American pioneer and military officer best known for establishing the Kentucky settlement that became Elizabethtown.
  • B. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • C. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • D. Col. Herbert Y. Schandler
    Col. Herbert Y. Schandler was a U.S. Army officer and military historian known for his influential analyses of the Vietnam War and American foreign policy.
  • E. Brigadier General Frank Savage
    Brigadier General Frank Savage is the tough, no-nonsense U.S. Army Air Forces officer who leads and reforms a struggling bomber group in the World War II drama "Twelve O’Clock High."
  • 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: Colonel Frank Fitts
Triple: [American Beauty, character, Colonel Frank Fitts]
Generated description
Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Frank Fitts
Target entity description: Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • A. Colonel Andrew Hynes
    Colonel Andrew Hynes was an early American pioneer and military officer best known for establishing the Kentucky settlement that became Elizabethtown.
  • B. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • C. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • D. Col. Herbert Y. Schandler
    Col. Herbert Y. Schandler was a U.S. Army officer and military historian known for his influential analyses of the Vietnam War and American foreign policy.
  • E. Brigadier General Frank Savage
    Brigadier General Frank Savage is the tough, no-nonsense U.S. Army Air Forces officer who leads and reforms a struggling bomber group in the World War II drama "Twelve O’Clock High."
  • 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_69ad85793e5c8190a358049bc4a98d8c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada0fd87308190918e7b616f033faa completed March 8, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1ef16cf2881908265dfe8a1e3424d completed March 11, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f028cd0881909b35bf1870aae534 completed March 11, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f0a0f15481909f71c702ecc93924 completed March 11, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.