Triple

T5532348
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Fable E145077 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object the Old General
The Old General is a fictional elderly military leader who appears as a central character in the short story "A Fable" by William Faulkner.
E529117 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: the Old General | Statement: [A Fable, hasCharacter, the Old General]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the Old General
Context triple: [A Fable, hasCharacter, the Old General]
  • A. The General
    The General was the nickname of David Sarnoff, the influential broadcasting pioneer and longtime leader of RCA who helped shape the development of American radio and television.
  • B. The General
    The General is a science fiction novella by Isaac Asimov, part of his Foundation series, focusing on the clash between psychohistory and the military genius of General Bel Riose.
  • C. The General
    The General is a famous 19th-century American steam locomotive best known for its central role in the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase of 1862.
  • D. The Colonel
    The Colonel is the traditional mascot figure representing Eastern Kentucky University's athletic teams and school spirit.
  • E. the Colonel
    The Colonel is a central character in Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "La hojarasca," representing an aging, disillusioned patriarch who embodies the lingering legacy of past conflicts and the weight of family and societal obligations in a decaying Caribbean town.
  • 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: the Old General
Triple: [A Fable, hasCharacter, the Old General]
Generated description
The Old General is a fictional elderly military leader who appears as a central character in the short story "A Fable" by William Faulkner.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the Old General
Target entity description: The Old General is a fictional elderly military leader who appears as a central character in the short story "A Fable" by William Faulkner.
  • A. The General
    The General was the nickname of David Sarnoff, the influential broadcasting pioneer and longtime leader of RCA who helped shape the development of American radio and television.
  • B. The General
    The General is a science fiction novella by Isaac Asimov, part of his Foundation series, focusing on the clash between psychohistory and the military genius of General Bel Riose.
  • C. The General
    The General is a famous 19th-century American steam locomotive best known for its central role in the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase of 1862.
  • D. The Colonel
    The Colonel is the traditional mascot figure representing Eastern Kentucky University's athletic teams and school spirit.
  • E. the Colonel
    The Colonel is a central character in Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "La hojarasca," representing an aging, disillusioned patriarch who embodies the lingering legacy of past conflicts and the weight of family and societal obligations in a decaying Caribbean town.
  • 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_69c008f9955881909bfa8348b56b4739 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f9d17ec8190b93b12931a4c1b33 completed March 22, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c028094fa48190a1f48779a7963af9 completed March 22, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c033ddc7148190ba64ebfc2472c367 completed March 22, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c036725fc481908ab0e260892d8243 completed March 22, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:34 p.m.