Triple

T3860075
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In Dubious Battle E90112 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Jim Nolan
Jim Nolan is the idealistic young labor organizer who becomes radicalized and leads a fruit pickers' strike in John Steinbeck's novel "In Dubious Battle."
E394542 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: Jim Nolan | Statement: [In Dubious Battle, protagonist, Jim Nolan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Nolan
Context triple: [In Dubious Battle, protagonist, Jim Nolan]
  • A. Mike Nolan
    Mike Nolan is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British singer from the pop group Bucks Fizz and various sports coaches and players.
  • B. Shawn Ryan
    Shawn Ryan is an American television producer and writer best known for creating the acclaimed crime drama series "The Shield" and producing several other notable TV shows.
  • C. Tom Noonan
    Tom Noonan is an American character actor, writer, and director known for his distinctive, often menacing roles in films such as "Manhunter," "Last Action Hero," and "Synecdoche, New York."
  • D. Eric Mangini
    Eric Mangini is an American football coach best known for serving as head coach of the New York Jets and Cleveland Browns in the NFL.
  • E. Steven Dillingham
    Steven Dillingham is an American government official who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 United States census.
  • 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: Jim Nolan
Triple: [In Dubious Battle, protagonist, Jim Nolan]
Generated description
Jim Nolan is the idealistic young labor organizer who becomes radicalized and leads a fruit pickers' strike in John Steinbeck's novel "In Dubious Battle."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Nolan
Target entity description: Jim Nolan is the idealistic young labor organizer who becomes radicalized and leads a fruit pickers' strike in John Steinbeck's novel "In Dubious Battle."
  • A. Mike Nolan
    Mike Nolan is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a British singer from the pop group Bucks Fizz and various sports coaches and players.
  • B. Shawn Ryan
    Shawn Ryan is an American television producer and writer best known for creating the acclaimed crime drama series "The Shield" and producing several other notable TV shows.
  • C. Tom Noonan
    Tom Noonan is an American character actor, writer, and director known for his distinctive, often menacing roles in films such as "Manhunter," "Last Action Hero," and "Synecdoche, New York."
  • D. Eric Mangini
    Eric Mangini is an American football coach best known for serving as head coach of the New York Jets and Cleveland Browns in the NFL.
  • E. Steven Dillingham
    Steven Dillingham is an American government official who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 United States census.
  • 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_69aed95b3c088190a8f85d19e6070599 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec1ff39c8190b83a88abd840a0e3 completed March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b512348fe88190b5ae942809732b76 completed March 14, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b513013db481908f8fb5f56470c0d0 completed March 14, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5137200a08190bd2a78398e03803e completed March 14, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.