Triple

T5417609
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas E121168 entity
Predicate containsCharacter P5716 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant Kotler
Lieutenant Kotler is a young, strict, and often cruel Nazi officer stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas."
E518331 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: Lieutenant Kotler | Statement: [The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, containsCharacter, Lieutenant Kotler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Kotler
Context triple: [The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, containsCharacter, Lieutenant Kotler]
  • A. Sergeant Elias Grodin
    Sergeant Elias Grodin is a central, idealistic yet battle-weary soldier in the Vietnam War film "Platoon," known for his moral integrity and conflict with the more brutal Sergeant Barnes.
  • B. Sergeant Joe Bomowski
    Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
  • C. Lieutenant Baugh
    Lieutenant Baugh was a British officer involved in the 1857 Barrackpore incident, a key early flashpoint in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • D. Lieutenant Starck
    Lieutenant Starck is a key crew member and officer aboard the rescue vessel Lewis and Clark in the 1997 science fiction horror film "Event Horizon."
  • E. Lieutenant Hearn
    Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
  • 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: Lieutenant Kotler
Triple: [The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, containsCharacter, Lieutenant Kotler]
Generated description
Lieutenant Kotler is a young, strict, and often cruel Nazi officer stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Kotler
Target entity description: Lieutenant Kotler is a young, strict, and often cruel Nazi officer stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas."
  • A. Sergeant Elias Grodin
    Sergeant Elias Grodin is a central, idealistic yet battle-weary soldier in the Vietnam War film "Platoon," known for his moral integrity and conflict with the more brutal Sergeant Barnes.
  • B. Sergeant Joe Bomowski
    Sergeant Joe Bomowski is a tough but comically beleaguered Los Angeles police detective whose overbearing mother constantly interferes in both his personal life and police work.
  • C. Lieutenant Baugh
    Lieutenant Baugh was a British officer involved in the 1857 Barrackpore incident, a key early flashpoint in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • D. Lieutenant Starck
    Lieutenant Starck is a key crew member and officer aboard the rescue vessel Lewis and Clark in the 1997 science fiction horror film "Event Horizon."
  • E. Lieutenant Hearn
    Lieutenant Hearn is a central character in Norman Mailer’s World War II novel "The Naked and the Dead," serving as a thoughtful, conflicted army officer whose clashes with authority explore themes of power and morality in wartime.
  • 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_69bd463a41cc8190b32ff5af2b96ca93 completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd87e620f081909eb9a5e1f284e5a2 completed March 20, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3aadfa4c81908b57af80f534b121 completed March 22, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3b7f947c8190bc15d839488f393b completed March 22, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3bfde6148190a2e7aa76bd5dce37 completed March 22, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:05 p.m.