Triple

T5319541
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sling Blade E121637 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Karl Childers
Karl Childers is the mentally challenged yet deeply introspective protagonist of the film "Sling Blade," known for his distinctive speech, troubled past, and moral struggle.
 E551432 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: Karl Childers | Statement: [Sling Blade, mainCharacter, Karl Childers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Karl Childers
Context triple: [Sling Blade, mainCharacter, Karl Childers]
  • A. Karl Farr
    Karl Farr was an American guitarist and musician best known for his influential work with the Western singing group Sons of the Pioneers.
  • B. Charles Pritchard
    Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
  • C. Charles Mant
    Charles Mant was a British architect noted for his influential role in developing Indo-Saracenic architecture in colonial India.
  • D. Edgar Lyons
    Edgar Lyons was a cinematographer active during the early sound era of American cinema, known for his work on the pioneering all-talking feature film "Lights of New York."
  • E. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • 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: Karl Childers
Triple: [Sling Blade, mainCharacter, Karl Childers]
Generated description
Karl Childers is the mentally challenged yet deeply introspective protagonist of the film "Sling Blade," known for his distinctive speech, troubled past, and moral struggle.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Karl Childers
Target entity description: Karl Childers is the mentally challenged yet deeply introspective protagonist of the film "Sling Blade," known for his distinctive speech, troubled past, and moral struggle.
  • A. Karl Farr
    Karl Farr was an American guitarist and musician best known for his influential work with the Western singing group Sons of the Pioneers.
  • B. Charles Pritchard
    Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
  • C. Charles Mant
    Charles Mant was a British architect noted for his influential role in developing Indo-Saracenic architecture in colonial India.
  • D. Edgar Lyons
    Edgar Lyons was a cinematographer active during the early sound era of American cinema, known for his work on the pioneering all-talking feature film "Lights of New York."
  • E. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • 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_69bd463d956c819088105c3db802c017 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd855407048190bcdb97c7098cc2aa completed March 20, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0a1308a548190b49a8212c3f3f7f0 completed March 23, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0a1faf7d48190ad2d5f43ef37da82 completed March 23, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0a2e17cd88190a54f5166fe5c654a completed March 23, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:59 p.m.