Triple

T3288422
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone E69040 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Caleb Proudhammer
Caleb Proudhammer is the introspective African American actor who serves as the central protagonist and narrator in James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," through whom themes of race, sexuality, and identity are explored.
E343590 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: Caleb Proudhammer | Statement: [Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, hasCharacter, Caleb Proudhammer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caleb Proudhammer
Context triple: [Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, hasCharacter, Caleb Proudhammer]
  • A. Caleb Brewster
    Caleb Brewster was a real-life American Revolutionary War soldier and daring whaleboat captain who served as a key courier in George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring.
  • B. Caleb
    Caleb is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "devotion" or "whole-hearted," commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. Caleb Lyon
    Caleb Lyon was a 19th-century American politician and designer best known for creating the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • D. Porter Black
    Porter Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose struggle with severe depression leads him to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an alternate personality.
  • E. Jared Spurgeon
    Jared Spurgeon is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman in the NHL known for his smart two-way play and leadership with the Minnesota Wild.
  • 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: Caleb Proudhammer
Triple: [Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, hasCharacter, Caleb Proudhammer]
Generated description
Caleb Proudhammer is the introspective African American actor who serves as the central protagonist and narrator in James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," through whom themes of race, sexuality, and identity are explored.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caleb Proudhammer
Target entity description: Caleb Proudhammer is the introspective African American actor who serves as the central protagonist and narrator in James Baldwin’s novel "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," through whom themes of race, sexuality, and identity are explored.
  • A. Caleb Brewster
    Caleb Brewster was a real-life American Revolutionary War soldier and daring whaleboat captain who served as a key courier in George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring.
  • B. Caleb
    Caleb is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "devotion" or "whole-hearted," commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. Caleb Lyon
    Caleb Lyon was a 19th-century American politician and designer best known for creating the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • D. Porter Black
    Porter Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose struggle with severe depression leads him to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an alternate personality.
  • E. Jared Spurgeon
    Jared Spurgeon is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman in the NHL known for his smart two-way play and leadership with the Minnesota Wild.
  • 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_69ad859d45748190b0742408c954b39f completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb058e00881908fdf0a23208860d4 completed March 8, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2e862835881909c2f3b8f86f10742 completed March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2e8f6a7c48190bc457f348c3a7179 completed March 12, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2e986dcc88190bd3daa6c6fdcb50e completed March 12, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.