Triple

T6091983
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Affair E135785 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Cole Lockhart
Cole Lockhart is a central character in the television drama "The Affair," portrayed as a struggling Montauk fisherman and restaurateur whose life is upended by infidelity, grief, and shifting family loyalties.
E567907 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: Cole Lockhart | Statement: [The Affair, mainCharacter, Cole Lockhart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cole Lockhart
Context triple: [The Affair, mainCharacter, Cole Lockhart]
  • A. Ross Lockhart
    Ross Lockhart is the wealthy, emotionally distant father at the center of Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose involvement with a cryogenic preservation facility drives the book’s exploration of mortality and technology.
  • B. Gene Lockhart
    Gene Lockhart was a Canadian-American character actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood films and on stage during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Jeremy Dawson
    Jeremy Dawson is a film producer best known for his work on Wes Anderson’s movies, including the acclaimed feature "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
  • D. Andrew Millar
    Andrew Millar was an 18th-century Scottish-born London bookseller and publisher known for issuing major works of Enlightenment authors, including David Hume.
  • E. Eric Drummond
    Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
  • 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: Cole Lockhart
Triple: [The Affair, mainCharacter, Cole Lockhart]
Generated description
Cole Lockhart is a central character in the television drama "The Affair," portrayed as a struggling Montauk fisherman and restaurateur whose life is upended by infidelity, grief, and shifting family loyalties.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cole Lockhart
Target entity description: Cole Lockhart is a central character in the television drama "The Affair," portrayed as a struggling Montauk fisherman and restaurateur whose life is upended by infidelity, grief, and shifting family loyalties.
  • A. Ross Lockhart
    Ross Lockhart is the wealthy, emotionally distant father at the center of Don DeLillo’s novel "Zero K," whose involvement with a cryogenic preservation facility drives the book’s exploration of mortality and technology.
  • B. Gene Lockhart
    Gene Lockhart was a Canadian-American character actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood films and on stage during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Jeremy Dawson
    Jeremy Dawson is a film producer best known for his work on Wes Anderson’s movies, including the acclaimed feature "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
  • D. Andrew Millar
    Andrew Millar was an 18th-century Scottish-born London bookseller and publisher known for issuing major works of Enlightenment authors, including David Hume.
  • E. Eric Drummond
    Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
  • 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_69c0087cd3c48190b459848c72d84eb1 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c057ab7324819086d4708e6f9391c0 completed March 22, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c125365a7481909e40d01c2d3590aa completed March 23, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c125c1a230819095dd0a56309880eb completed March 23, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c126c641448190a826c213e8ab05af completed March 23, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:12 p.m.