Triple

T7393718
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Civil Action E170567 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Jan Schlichtmann
Jan Schlichtmann is a real-life American lawyer best known for his high-profile environmental pollution lawsuit against major corporations, which was dramatized in the book and film "A Civil Action."
E690711 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: Jan Schlichtmann | Statement: [A Civil Action, mainCharacter, Jan Schlichtmann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jan Schlichtmann
Context triple: [A Civil Action, mainCharacter, Jan Schlichtmann]
  • A. Benno Levin
    Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
  • B. Mendel Rosenblum
    Mendel Rosenblum is a computer scientist and Stanford professor best known as a co-founder and chief architect of VMware and a pioneer in virtualization technology.
  • C. Leon Schiller
    Leon Schiller was a prominent Polish theater and film director, critic, and theoretician, regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century Polish performing arts.
  • D. Yehuda Hoffman
    Yehuda Hoffman is an astrophysicist known for his work in cosmology and large-scale structure, including helping identify and characterize the Laniakea Supercluster.
  • E. Michael Waldstein
    Michael Waldstein is a Catholic theologian and scholar best known for his authoritative English translation and commentary on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
  • 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: Jan Schlichtmann
Triple: [A Civil Action, mainCharacter, Jan Schlichtmann]
Generated description
Jan Schlichtmann is a real-life American lawyer best known for his high-profile environmental pollution lawsuit against major corporations, which was dramatized in the book and film "A Civil Action."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jan Schlichtmann
Target entity description: Jan Schlichtmann is a real-life American lawyer best known for his high-profile environmental pollution lawsuit against major corporations, which was dramatized in the book and film "A Civil Action."
  • A. Benno Levin
    Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
  • B. Mendel Rosenblum
    Mendel Rosenblum is a computer scientist and Stanford professor best known as a co-founder and chief architect of VMware and a pioneer in virtualization technology.
  • C. Leon Schiller
    Leon Schiller was a prominent Polish theater and film director, critic, and theoretician, regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century Polish performing arts.
  • D. Yehuda Hoffman
    Yehuda Hoffman is an astrophysicist known for his work in cosmology and large-scale structure, including helping identify and characterize the Laniakea Supercluster.
  • E. Michael Waldstein
    Michael Waldstein is a Catholic theologian and scholar best known for his authoritative English translation and commentary on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
  • 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_69c68a5e2c9081909e713ce866e0060a completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2263b48819089319a2a2f0d3357 completed March 27, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c941f469c881908e83cfd6c8191af1 completed March 29, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c945f81a708190a5c83f0f6a8f6a71 completed March 29, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9466cb89c8190ae4a045290d1964a completed March 29, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:09 p.m.