Triple

T6875265
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Gods E158656 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Mr. Nancy
Mr. Nancy is a charismatic, sharp-tongued incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi who appears as an old man in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
E625830 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: Mr. Nancy | Statement: [American Gods, character, Mr. Nancy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Nancy
Context triple: [American Gods, character, Mr. Nancy]
  • A. Elwood Mead
    Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
  • B. Quincy Magoo
    Quincy Magoo is a classic cartoon character portrayed as a wealthy, stubborn, and extremely nearsighted older man whose visual impairments lead to humorous misadventures.
  • C. Charlie Runkle
    Charlie Runkle is a fictional Hollywood talent agent and the loyal but often hapless best friend of writer Hank Moody on the television series "Californication."
  • D. Mister Johnson
    Mister Johnson is a 1990 drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, adapted from Joyce Cary’s novel about a Nigerian clerk navigating British colonial rule in the 1920s.
  • E. Mr. Charlie
    "Mr. Charlie" is a bluesy rock song by the Grateful Dead, known from their early-1970s live repertoire and featured on the live album Europe '72.
  • 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: Mr. Nancy
Triple: [American Gods, character, Mr. Nancy]
Generated description
Mr. Nancy is a charismatic, sharp-tongued incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi who appears as an old man in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Nancy
Target entity description: Mr. Nancy is a charismatic, sharp-tongued incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi who appears as an old man in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
  • A. Elwood Mead
    Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
  • B. Quincy Magoo
    Quincy Magoo is a classic cartoon character portrayed as a wealthy, stubborn, and extremely nearsighted older man whose visual impairments lead to humorous misadventures.
  • C. Charlie Runkle
    Charlie Runkle is a fictional Hollywood talent agent and the loyal but often hapless best friend of writer Hank Moody on the television series "Californication."
  • D. Mister Johnson
    Mister Johnson is a 1990 drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, adapted from Joyce Cary’s novel about a Nigerian clerk navigating British colonial rule in the 1920s.
  • E. Mr. Charlie
    "Mr. Charlie" is a bluesy rock song by the Grateful Dead, known from their early-1970s live repertoire and featured on the live album Europe '72.
  • 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_69c68832af1481908ce356e133ebaebe completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d8c9e7b481909079b0f1fb1bc217 completed March 27, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c742b66ca08190bed17fa3ab6733ef completed March 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7441117ec8190b9b355c474289010 completed March 28, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c744a20bd481908a7c6aaa6383a68f completed March 28, 2026, 3:01 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:22 p.m.