Triple

T8242875
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Tommyknockers E192777 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object James Eric Gardener
James Eric Gardener is a central protagonist in Stephen King’s science fiction–horror novel "The Tommyknockers," portrayed as a struggling poet and former alcoholic who becomes key to resisting the town’s sinister transformation.
 E721688 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: James Eric Gardener | Statement: [The Tommyknockers, hasMainCharacter, James Eric Gardener]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Eric Gardener
Context triple: [The Tommyknockers, hasMainCharacter, James Eric Gardener]
  • A. Chris Gardner
    Chris Gardner is an American entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author whose struggle with homelessness while raising his young son inspired the film "The Pursuit of Happyness."
  • B. Jonas Bailey Gardner
    Jonas Bailey Gardner was the father of legendary American film actress Ava Gardner.
  • C. Ali Marie Matheson
    Ali Marie Matheson is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the Disney Channel fantasy film "Halloweentown."
  • D. Michael Ryan Pritchard
    Michael Ryan Pritchard is an American musician best known as Mike Dirnt, the bassist and co-founder of the punk rock band Green Day.
  • E. John Jackson
    John Jackson was the father of Julia Prinsep Duckworth, making him the maternal grandfather of the writer Virginia Woolf.
  • 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: James Eric Gardener
Triple: [The Tommyknockers, hasMainCharacter, James Eric Gardener]
Generated description
James Eric Gardener is a central protagonist in Stephen King’s science fiction–horror novel "The Tommyknockers," portrayed as a struggling poet and former alcoholic who becomes key to resisting the town’s sinister transformation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Eric Gardener
Target entity description: James Eric Gardener is a central protagonist in Stephen King’s science fiction–horror novel "The Tommyknockers," portrayed as a struggling poet and former alcoholic who becomes key to resisting the town’s sinister transformation.
  • A. Chris Gardner
    Chris Gardner is an American entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author whose struggle with homelessness while raising his young son inspired the film "The Pursuit of Happyness."
  • B. Jonas Bailey Gardner
    Jonas Bailey Gardner was the father of legendary American film actress Ava Gardner.
  • C. Ali Marie Matheson
    Ali Marie Matheson is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the Disney Channel fantasy film "Halloweentown."
  • D. Michael Ryan Pritchard
    Michael Ryan Pritchard is an American musician best known as Mike Dirnt, the bassist and co-founder of the punk rock band Green Day.
  • E. John Jackson
    John Jackson was the father of Julia Prinsep Duckworth, making him the maternal grandfather of the writer Virginia Woolf.
  • 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_69ca82de7b8c81908d8106f8a53cff9b completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb786f65708190a92ec282b280c813 completed March 31, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd3521bfb48190935fe82a1f768adc completed April 1, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd37a5d3bc8190801b1b0f09eee462 completed April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4edfda788190a29f5d9a7a61f6ed completed April 1, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:47 p.m.