Triple
T4374558
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Meet John Doe |
E98972
|
entity |
| Predicate | character |
P662
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
D. B. Norton
D. B. Norton is the wealthy, manipulative newspaper magnate and political power broker who serves as the main antagonist in the 1941 film "Meet John Doe."
|
E444971
|
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: D. B. Norton | Statement: [Meet John Doe, character, D. B. Norton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: D. B. Norton Context triple: [Meet John Doe, character, D. B. Norton]
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A.
S. P. Norton
S. P. Norton is a mathematician known for his contributions to the theory and construction of the Monster group and related areas in group theory.
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B.
T. C. Morrow
T. C. Morrow was a businessman best known for owning the Houston Mavericks professional basketball franchise in the late 1960s American Basketball Association.
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C.
Cecil Purdy
Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
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D.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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E.
Edward Doty
Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
- 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: D. B. Norton Triple: [Meet John Doe, character, D. B. Norton]
Generated description
D. B. Norton is the wealthy, manipulative newspaper magnate and political power broker who serves as the main antagonist in the 1941 film "Meet John Doe."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: D. B. Norton Target entity description: D. B. Norton is the wealthy, manipulative newspaper magnate and political power broker who serves as the main antagonist in the 1941 film "Meet John Doe."
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A.
S. P. Norton
S. P. Norton is a mathematician known for his contributions to the theory and construction of the Monster group and related areas in group theory.
-
B.
T. C. Morrow
T. C. Morrow was a businessman best known for owning the Houston Mavericks professional basketball franchise in the late 1960s American Basketball Association.
-
C.
Cecil Purdy
Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
-
D.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
-
E.
Edward Doty
Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
- 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_69b3454db3708190aeafd814413c4c3d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b35220fa648190b116e786783a7eba |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b672218c1c8190adbb3c044b648e7e |
completed | March 15, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b672a0bfe88190b7b915fbeb104435 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 8:49 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b672ea8fcc8190bf56f4bf8180b28d |
completed | March 15, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:17 p.m.