Triple

T3798903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Of Mice and Men E91639 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Crooks
Crooks is the African American stable hand in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men," whose isolation and experiences of racism highlight the themes of loneliness and social injustice.
E388949 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: Crooks | Statement: [Of Mice and Men, character, Crooks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Crooks
Context triple: [Of Mice and Men, character, Crooks]
  • A. The Outlaw
    The Outlaw is a 1943 Western film famous for its controversial sexual content and for helping launch the career of actress Jane Russell.
  • B. Outlaws
    "Outlaws" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
  • C. Outlaw
    Outlaw is an American legal drama television series starring Jimmy Smits as a Supreme Court justice who resigns to return to private practice and fight for social justice.
  • D. Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
    "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" is a landmark 1973 outlaw country album by Waylon Jennings that helped define his rebellious, independent image in country music.
  • E. The Gang
    The Gang is the dysfunctional central group of friends in the TV sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," known for their selfish schemes and morally questionable antics.
  • 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: Crooks
Triple: [Of Mice and Men, character, Crooks]
Generated description
Crooks is the African American stable hand in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men," whose isolation and experiences of racism highlight the themes of loneliness and social injustice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Crooks
Target entity description: Crooks is the African American stable hand in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men," whose isolation and experiences of racism highlight the themes of loneliness and social injustice.
  • A. The Outlaw
    The Outlaw is a 1943 Western film famous for its controversial sexual content and for helping launch the career of actress Jane Russell.
  • B. Outlaws
    "Outlaws" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
  • C. Outlaw
    Outlaw is an American legal drama television series starring Jimmy Smits as a Supreme Court justice who resigns to return to private practice and fight for social justice.
  • D. Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
    "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" is a landmark 1973 outlaw country album by Waylon Jennings that helped define his rebellious, independent image in country music.
  • E. The Gang
    The Gang is the dysfunctional central group of friends in the TV sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," known for their selfish schemes and morally questionable antics.
  • 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_69aed96354f48190a768966d6bd19b04 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee7a270908190ac30537a22f3d500 completed March 9, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4f064471881908b52b2f64e50a83d completed March 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f1fae7ac8190909b05c0d685e377 completed March 14, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f29e5fb48190982ab2844eb8c179 completed March 14, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:15 p.m.