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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.