Triple

T524021
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Gangster E10877 entity
Predicate portrays P264 FINISHED
Object Nicky Barnes
Nicky Barnes was a notorious New York City heroin kingpin and organized crime figure who rose to prominence in the 1970s as the leader of a powerful drug trafficking organization in Harlem.
E90842 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: Nicky Barnes | Statement: [American Gangster, portrays, Nicky Barnes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicky Barnes
Context triple: [American Gangster, portrays, Nicky Barnes]
  • A. Nicky Arnstein
    Nicky Arnstein was a real-life early 20th-century gambler and con artist best known as the charismatic but troubled husband of entertainer Fanny Brice, whose relationship was dramatized in the musical and film "Funny Girl."
  • B. Alicia Nash
    Alicia Nash was a Salvadoran-American physicist and mental health advocate best known as the devoted wife of mathematician John Nash, whose life with him was portrayed in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
  • C. Anna Beth Sully
    Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
  • D. Annie Kilburn
    Annie Kilburn is a realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores social reform, class, and moral responsibility in a small New England town.
  • E. Katherine Rogers
    Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
  • 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: Nicky Barnes
Triple: [American Gangster, portrays, Nicky Barnes]
Generated description
Nicky Barnes was a notorious New York City heroin kingpin and organized crime figure who rose to prominence in the 1970s as the leader of a powerful drug trafficking organization in Harlem.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicky Barnes
Target entity description: Nicky Barnes was a notorious New York City heroin kingpin and organized crime figure who rose to prominence in the 1970s as the leader of a powerful drug trafficking organization in Harlem.
  • A. Nicky Arnstein
    Nicky Arnstein was a real-life early 20th-century gambler and con artist best known as the charismatic but troubled husband of entertainer Fanny Brice, whose relationship was dramatized in the musical and film "Funny Girl."
  • B. Alicia Nash
    Alicia Nash was a Salvadoran-American physicist and mental health advocate best known as the devoted wife of mathematician John Nash, whose life with him was portrayed in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
  • C. Anna Beth Sully
    Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
  • D. Annie Kilburn
    Annie Kilburn is a realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores social reform, class, and moral responsibility in a small New England town.
  • E. Katherine Rogers
    Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
  • 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_69a2e84b16c4819088d284c47c3a7968 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f1b656c08190b387f21b06d99e68 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a66662e848819095aca23ceb5eeef2 completed March 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a666ded0288190a43e8a13db4f6914 completed March 3, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a667b8de2c819092f9a4c10abeeb56 completed March 3, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.