Triple

T5080076
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pikmin E114490 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Shepherd
Shepherd is the customizable space explorer protagonist introduced in Pikmin 4, leading squads of Pikmin on rescue and exploration missions.
 E492986 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: Shepherd | Statement: [Pikmin, mainCharacter, Shepherd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shepherd
Context triple: [Pikmin, mainCharacter, Shepherd]
  • A. Shep
    Shep is the station code used to identify Sheppard–Yonge station in the Toronto subway system.
  • B. Weaver
    Weaver is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as weavers of cloth or textiles.
  • C. Lämmerhirt
    Lämmerhirt is a German surname most notably borne by Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • D. Shriever
    Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
  • E. Saddler
    Saddler is a surname and occupational term historically referring to someone who makes, repairs, or sells saddles and other horse-related leather equipment.
  • 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: Shepherd
Triple: [Pikmin, mainCharacter, Shepherd]
Generated description
Shepherd is the customizable space explorer protagonist introduced in Pikmin 4, leading squads of Pikmin on rescue and exploration missions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shepherd
Target entity description: Shepherd is the customizable space explorer protagonist introduced in Pikmin 4, leading squads of Pikmin on rescue and exploration missions.
  • A. Shep
    Shep is the station code used to identify Sheppard–Yonge station in the Toronto subway system.
  • B. Weaver
    Weaver is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as weavers of cloth or textiles.
  • C. Lämmerhirt
    Lämmerhirt is a German surname most notably borne by Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, the mother of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • D. Shriever
    Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
  • E. Saddler
    Saddler is a surname and occupational term historically referring to someone who makes, repairs, or sells saddles and other horse-related leather equipment.
  • 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_69bd443dbf908190a9401e9c2dc7bd7d completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd74f86c988190aa026073ed435a45 completed March 20, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beb1303bc4819084e0270a8ff97aec completed March 21, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beb1dd68cc819080f5326972059995 completed March 21, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beb26a849c819096161ed3b4d30ec6 completed March 21, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:39 p.m.