Triple

T8244098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Quitters, Inc. E192806 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Jimmy McCann
Jimmy McCann is a character in Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.” who serves as a cautionary example of the extreme and sinister methods used by the company to enforce smoking cessation.
 E721777 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: Jimmy McCann | Statement: [Quitters, Inc., featuresCharacter, Jimmy McCann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jimmy McCann
Context triple: [Quitters, Inc., featuresCharacter, Jimmy McCann]
  • A. James McCann
    James McCann is a business executive best known for serving as chairman of the global insurance brokerage and risk management firm Willis Group Holdings.
  • B. James Morris
    James Morris is a music industry professional best known as the founder of Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios, a landmark recording facility used by numerous major artists.
  • C. Paul McGinness
    Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
  • D. Neil Callaghan
    Neil Callaghan is a contemporary choreographer and performer known for his experimental and interdisciplinary work in dance and performance art.
  • E. Ren McCormack
    Ren McCormack is the rebellious teenage protagonist of the musical drama "Footloose," known for challenging a small town's ban on dancing.
  • 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: Jimmy McCann
Triple: [Quitters, Inc., featuresCharacter, Jimmy McCann]
Generated description
Jimmy McCann is a character in Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.” who serves as a cautionary example of the extreme and sinister methods used by the company to enforce smoking cessation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jimmy McCann
Target entity description: Jimmy McCann is a character in Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.” who serves as a cautionary example of the extreme and sinister methods used by the company to enforce smoking cessation.
  • A. James McCann
    James McCann is a business executive best known for serving as chairman of the global insurance brokerage and risk management firm Willis Group Holdings.
  • B. James Morris
    James Morris is a music industry professional best known as the founder of Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios, a landmark recording facility used by numerous major artists.
  • C. Paul McGinness
    Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
  • D. Neil Callaghan
    Neil Callaghan is a contemporary choreographer and performer known for his experimental and interdisciplinary work in dance and performance art.
  • E. Ren McCormack
    Ren McCormack is the rebellious teenage protagonist of the musical drama "Footloose," known for challenging a small town's ban on dancing.
  • 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_69cb78711f5081909c2f357334491a07 completed March 31, 2026, 7:32 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.