Triple
T3675725
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Infinite Jest |
E77986
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresCharacter |
P626
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Don Gately
Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
|
E378546
|
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: Don Gately | Statement: [Infinite Jest, featuresCharacter, Don Gately]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Gately Context triple: [Infinite Jest, featuresCharacter, Don Gately]
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A.
Clovis Cole
Clovis Cole was a prominent 19th-century wheat farmer and landowner in California whose holdings and influence in the region led to the nearby city of Clovis being named in his honor.
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B.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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C.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
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D.
Ross O’Donovan
Ross O’Donovan is an Irish-Australian animator, voice actor, and internet personality best known for his work on YouTube and as a former member of the Game Grumps channel.
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E.
Sam Grant
Sam Grant is a nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and commanding Union general during the American Civil War.
- 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: Don Gately Triple: [Infinite Jest, featuresCharacter, Don Gately]
Generated description
Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Gately Target entity description: Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
-
A.
Clovis Cole
Clovis Cole was a prominent 19th-century wheat farmer and landowner in California whose holdings and influence in the region led to the nearby city of Clovis being named in his honor.
-
B.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
-
C.
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway
Detective Sergeant James Hathaway is a thoughtful, intellectual police detective and Robbie Lewis’s younger partner in the British crime drama series "Lewis," set in Oxford.
-
D.
Ross O’Donovan
Ross O’Donovan is an Irish-Australian animator, voice actor, and internet personality best known for his work on YouTube and as a former member of the Game Grumps channel.
-
E.
Sam Grant
Sam Grant is a nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and commanding Union general during the American Civil War.
- 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc462ffdc8190896e9f98f648e2f3 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b48856b7d481909d9cc32586d61d44 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b489b0de348190a339affb0d59e4b3 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 10:03 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b4bc976fc881909a067b73002c5305 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:40 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.