Triple

T5693718
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk E125485 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Billy Lynn
Billy Lynn is the young U.S. Army soldier protagonist of Ben Fountain’s novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," whose brief stateside victory tour exposes the disconnect between civilian perceptions of war and its brutal reality.
E541880 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: Billy Lynn | Statement: [Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, mainCharacter, Billy Lynn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Lynn
Context triple: [Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, mainCharacter, Billy Lynn]
  • A. Michael Strank
    Michael Strank was a United States Marine Corps sergeant and one of the flag-raisers on Iwo Jima during World War II, later depicted as a central figure in the book and film "Flags of Our Fathers."
  • B. Corporal Miller
    Corporal Miller is a skilled explosives expert and member of the commando team in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone."
  • C. Tommy Atkins
    Tommy Atkins is a widely grown commercial mango cultivar known for its attractive color, long shelf life, and firm, fibrous flesh.
  • D. Lance Corporal Blake
    Lance Corporal Blake is a young British World War I soldier who serves as one of the central protagonists in the 2019 war film "1917."
  • E. Sergeant Gavin Troy
    Sergeant Gavin Troy is a fictional police sergeant and the original junior partner to DCI Tom Barnaby in the British detective television series "Midsomer Murders."
  • 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: Billy Lynn
Triple: [Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, mainCharacter, Billy Lynn]
Generated description
Billy Lynn is the young U.S. Army soldier protagonist of Ben Fountain’s novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," whose brief stateside victory tour exposes the disconnect between civilian perceptions of war and its brutal reality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Lynn
Target entity description: Billy Lynn is the young U.S. Army soldier protagonist of Ben Fountain’s novel "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," whose brief stateside victory tour exposes the disconnect between civilian perceptions of war and its brutal reality.
  • A. Michael Strank
    Michael Strank was a United States Marine Corps sergeant and one of the flag-raisers on Iwo Jima during World War II, later depicted as a central figure in the book and film "Flags of Our Fathers."
  • B. Corporal Miller
    Corporal Miller is a skilled explosives expert and member of the commando team in the World War II adventure film "The Guns of Navarone."
  • C. Tommy Atkins
    Tommy Atkins is a widely grown commercial mango cultivar known for its attractive color, long shelf life, and firm, fibrous flesh.
  • D. Lance Corporal Blake
    Lance Corporal Blake is a young British World War I soldier who serves as one of the central protagonists in the 2019 war film "1917."
  • E. Sergeant Gavin Troy
    Sergeant Gavin Troy is a fictional police sergeant and the original junior partner to DCI Tom Barnaby in the British detective television series "Midsomer Murders."
  • 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_69c0082bb19c8190823a4facd3cba79b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c023e7dbe48190850b501f223614e3 completed March 22, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a528a348190a7f6fd4cc3b76c92 completed March 22, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05d8890148190a4f81b2c1ca70886 completed March 22, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0620ee1848190935f5f78abbed7ba completed March 22, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:44 p.m.