Triple

T4307961
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Human Comedy E94001 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ulysses Macauley
Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
E429245 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: Ulysses Macauley | Statement: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Ulysses Macauley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ulysses Macauley
Context triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Ulysses Macauley]
  • A. Walter Plunkett
    Walter Plunkett was a prominent American costume designer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Gone with the Wind."
  • B. Vincent MacKenna
    Vincent MacKenna is the gruff, hard-drinking yet unexpectedly kind-hearted elderly neighbor portrayed by Bill Murray in the comedy-drama film "St. Vincent."
  • C. Desmond MacCarthy
    Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
  • D. Ambrose O’Brien
    Ambrose O’Brien was a Canadian sports executive and entrepreneur best known for helping to establish professional ice hockey leagues that were precursors to the modern NHL.
  • E. Percy Kilbride
    Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
  • 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: Ulysses Macauley
Triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Ulysses Macauley]
Generated description
Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ulysses Macauley
Target entity description: Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
  • A. Walter Plunkett
    Walter Plunkett was a prominent American costume designer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films such as "Gone with the Wind."
  • B. Vincent MacKenna
    Vincent MacKenna is the gruff, hard-drinking yet unexpectedly kind-hearted elderly neighbor portrayed by Bill Murray in the comedy-drama film "St. Vincent."
  • C. Desmond MacCarthy
    Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
  • D. Ambrose O’Brien
    Ambrose O’Brien was a Canadian sports executive and entrepreneur best known for helping to establish professional ice hockey leagues that were precursors to the modern NHL.
  • E. Percy Kilbride
    Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
  • 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_69b3451886588190a3dd1305ea7c58dc completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b350d2af088190ad7cb035d6e0f8c2 completed March 12, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5c756809c8190af90c91ec7883e55 completed March 14, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5c804f3f881908dd2d020d07c4859 completed March 14, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5c84e48b8819080571f995d8baf13 completed March 14, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.