Triple

T7538491
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cat on a Hot Tin Roof E178210 entity
Predicate leadCharacter P1668 FINISHED
Object Brick Pollitt
Brick Pollitt is the disillusioned, alcoholic former football star at the center of Tennessee Williams’ play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," whose strained marriage and family conflicts drive the drama’s exploration of truth, desire, and repression.
E671937 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: Brick Pollitt | Statement: [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, leadCharacter, Brick Pollitt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brick Pollitt
Context triple: [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, leadCharacter, Brick Pollitt]
  • A. Charles Brickley
    Charles Brickley was an early 20th-century American football player and coach best known for his role in founding and leading the short-lived New York Brickley Giants in the early NFL era.
  • B. George Bowers
    George Bowers was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood movies, including the baseball comedy-drama "A League of Their Own."
  • C. Arthur Dorman
    Arthur Dorman was a British industrialist best known as a co-founder of the major steel and engineering firm Dorman Long and Co Ltd, which played a significant role in bridge building and heavy industry.
  • D. Charles Pritchard
    Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
  • E. Ward McAllister
    Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century New York social arbiter best known for codifying the rules of high society and helping define the elite circle known as "The Four Hundred."
  • 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: Brick Pollitt
Triple: [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, leadCharacter, Brick Pollitt]
Generated description
Brick Pollitt is the disillusioned, alcoholic former football star at the center of Tennessee Williams’ play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," whose strained marriage and family conflicts drive the drama’s exploration of truth, desire, and repression.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brick Pollitt
Target entity description: Brick Pollitt is the disillusioned, alcoholic former football star at the center of Tennessee Williams’ play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," whose strained marriage and family conflicts drive the drama’s exploration of truth, desire, and repression.
  • A. Charles Brickley
    Charles Brickley was an early 20th-century American football player and coach best known for his role in founding and leading the short-lived New York Brickley Giants in the early NFL era.
  • B. George Bowers
    George Bowers was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood movies, including the baseball comedy-drama "A League of Their Own."
  • C. Arthur Dorman
    Arthur Dorman was a British industrialist best known as a co-founder of the major steel and engineering firm Dorman Long and Co Ltd, which played a significant role in bridge building and heavy industry.
  • D. Charles Pritchard
    Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
  • E. Ward McAllister
    Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century New York social arbiter best known for codifying the rules of high society and helping define the elite circle known as "The Four Hundred."
  • 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_69c69f2be3888190a6667a27f8f195e9 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f8710400819088e430c8c550577e completed March 27, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c84f14d20c8190ab254f991cec0d94 completed March 28, 2026, 9:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c853ab496c8190ad35c7c00eb82160 completed March 28, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c853f8e6808190bde26c01576cc22c completed March 28, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:48 p.m.