Triple

T4035069
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject No Country for Old Men E83808 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ed Tom Bell
Ed Tom Bell is a weary, morally reflective sheriff in Cormac McCarthy’s novel and its film adaptation, embodying the struggle to uphold traditional justice amid escalating modern violence.
E410734 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: Ed Tom Bell | Statement: [No Country for Old Men, mainCharacter, Ed Tom Bell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Tom Bell
Context triple: [No Country for Old Men, mainCharacter, Ed Tom Bell]
  • A. William Snyder
    William Snyder is an American photojournalist and editor renowned for his powerful visual storytelling, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
  • B. Harold Jacob Smith
    Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work on socially conscious films in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Mickey Stevenson
    Mickey Stevenson is an American songwriter and record producer best known for his influential work at Motown Records during the 1960s.
  • D. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • E. Hugh McCracken
    Hugh McCracken was an American session guitarist and harmonica player renowned for his work with major artists such as Paul McCartney, Steely Dan, and Aretha Franklin.
  • 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: Ed Tom Bell
Triple: [No Country for Old Men, mainCharacter, Ed Tom Bell]
Generated description
Ed Tom Bell is a weary, morally reflective sheriff in Cormac McCarthy’s novel and its film adaptation, embodying the struggle to uphold traditional justice amid escalating modern violence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Tom Bell
Target entity description: Ed Tom Bell is a weary, morally reflective sheriff in Cormac McCarthy’s novel and its film adaptation, embodying the struggle to uphold traditional justice amid escalating modern violence.
  • A. William Snyder
    William Snyder is an American photojournalist and editor renowned for his powerful visual storytelling, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
  • B. Harold Jacob Smith
    Harold Jacob Smith was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work on socially conscious films in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Mickey Stevenson
    Mickey Stevenson is an American songwriter and record producer best known for his influential work at Motown Records during the 1960s.
  • D. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • E. Hugh McCracken
    Hugh McCracken was an American session guitarist and harmonica player renowned for his work with major artists such as Paul McCartney, Steely Dan, and Aretha Franklin.
  • 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_69aed92f7cf0819098e0539bdcc3767f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefb11d92481909aaebbc250ff45b9 completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5629748d88190984cce08eef05e9c completed March 14, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5637cd5b881909a930ecb33eed991 completed March 14, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b564603b4881909e80970aa21e3db4 completed March 14, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:36 p.m.