Triple

T3630459
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horton Hears a Who! E76941 entity
Predicate characterVoiced P13156 FINISHED
Object Mayor Ned McDodd
Mayor Ned McDodd is the anxious yet kind-hearted leader of Whoville in Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!", known for his large family and his struggle to convince others of the tiny world's existence.
 E374988 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: Mayor Ned McDodd | Statement: [Horton Hears a Who!, characterVoiced, Mayor Ned McDodd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mayor Ned McDodd
Context triple: [Horton Hears a Who!, characterVoiced, Mayor Ned McDodd]
  • A. Jeffrey Brotman
    Jeffrey Brotman was an American businessman and attorney best known as the co-founder and longtime chairman of Costco, one of the world’s largest warehouse retail chains.
  • B. Jeff Perry
    Jeff Perry is an American actor and theater director best known as a co-founder of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company and for his roles in television series such as "Scandal."
  • C. Willie Baker
    Willie Baker was the husband of famed American-born French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker.
  • D. Bob Gansler
    Bob Gansler is an American soccer coach best known for leading the underdog U.S. national team at the 1990 World Cup and later achieving major success in Major League Soccer.
  • E. Howard Cunningham
    Howard Cunningham is the affable, old-fashioned Milwaukee hardware store owner and father figure on the classic American sitcom "Happy Days."
  • 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: Mayor Ned McDodd
Triple: [Horton Hears a Who!, characterVoiced, Mayor Ned McDodd]
Generated description
Mayor Ned McDodd is the anxious yet kind-hearted leader of Whoville in Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!", known for his large family and his struggle to convince others of the tiny world's existence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mayor Ned McDodd
Target entity description: Mayor Ned McDodd is the anxious yet kind-hearted leader of Whoville in Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!", known for his large family and his struggle to convince others of the tiny world's existence.
  • A. Jeffrey Brotman
    Jeffrey Brotman was an American businessman and attorney best known as the co-founder and longtime chairman of Costco, one of the world’s largest warehouse retail chains.
  • B. Jeff Perry
    Jeff Perry is an American actor and theater director best known as a co-founder of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company and for his roles in television series such as "Scandal."
  • C. Willie Baker
    Willie Baker was the husband of famed American-born French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker.
  • D. Bob Gansler
    Bob Gansler is an American soccer coach best known for leading the underdog U.S. national team at the 1990 World Cup and later achieving major success in Major League Soccer.
  • E. Howard Cunningham
    Howard Cunningham is the affable, old-fashioned Milwaukee hardware store owner and father figure on the classic American sitcom "Happy Days."
  • 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_69ad85dc03948190b35b7189e4175bcc completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc300223881909019982ebf194f78 completed March 8, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b44f12c2608190bd0eb25c9df97ec6 completed March 13, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b45092464c8190b9ad6db8c8845026 completed March 13, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b450f261548190b5cd667b35453dcb completed March 13, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.