Triple

T8243294
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cold Mountain Penitentiary E192787 entity
Predicate notableGuard P64110 FINISHED
Object Brutus Howell
Brutus Howell is a senior prison guard and close colleague of Paul Edgecombe in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," known for his fairness and compassion toward death row inmates.
E721734 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: Brutus Howell | Statement: [Cold Mountain Penitentiary, notableGuard, Brutus Howell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brutus Howell
Context triple: [Cold Mountain Penitentiary, notableGuard, Brutus Howell]
  • A. Cincinnatus Powell
    Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • B. Isham Randolph
    Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
  • C. John Wrathall
    John Wrathall was a Rhodesian politician who served as the country's president during the late 1970s, in the final years of white-minority rule.
  • D. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • E. Elkin Mathews
    Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
  • 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: Brutus Howell
Triple: [Cold Mountain Penitentiary, notableGuard, Brutus Howell]
Generated description
Brutus Howell is a senior prison guard and close colleague of Paul Edgecombe in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," known for his fairness and compassion toward death row inmates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brutus Howell
Target entity description: Brutus Howell is a senior prison guard and close colleague of Paul Edgecombe in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile," known for his fairness and compassion toward death row inmates.
  • A. Cincinnatus Powell
    Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • B. Isham Randolph
    Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
  • C. John Wrathall
    John Wrathall was a Rhodesian politician who served as the country's president during the late 1970s, in the final years of white-minority rule.
  • D. Mordecai Brown
    Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • E. Elkin Mathews
    Elkin Mathews was a British publisher and bookseller best known for championing early works of major modernist writers, including W.B. Yeats and James Joyce.
  • 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.