Triple

T8316664
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lottery E194721 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Mr. Summers
Mr. Summers is the town official in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” who organizes and oversees the annual ritual, embodying the community’s unquestioned adherence to tradition.
E725662 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: Mr. Summers | Statement: [The Lottery, notableCharacter, Mr. Summers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Summers
Context triple: [The Lottery, notableCharacter, Mr. Summers]
  • A. Judge Merle
    Judge Merle is a fictional judge who presides over the central courtroom trial in the play and film "Inherit the Wind."
  • B. Judge Rutherford
    Judge Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and a key figure in shaping the doctrines and global expansion of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 20th century.
  • C. Walden Schmidt
    Walden Schmidt is a wealthy, socially awkward internet billionaire who becomes one of the central characters in the sitcom "Two and a Half Men."
  • D. Stringer Bell
    Stringer Bell is a central character in the television series "The Wire," a calculating drug kingpin who studies business and economics to run his criminal organization like a legitimate enterprise.
  • E. Franklin Simmons
    Franklin Simmons was a 19th-century American sculptor known for his public monuments and commemorative statues, particularly those related to the Civil War.
  • 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: Mr. Summers
Triple: [The Lottery, notableCharacter, Mr. Summers]
Generated description
Mr. Summers is the town official in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” who organizes and oversees the annual ritual, embodying the community’s unquestioned adherence to tradition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Summers
Target entity description: Mr. Summers is the town official in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” who organizes and oversees the annual ritual, embodying the community’s unquestioned adherence to tradition.
  • A. Judge Merle
    Judge Merle is a fictional judge who presides over the central courtroom trial in the play and film "Inherit the Wind."
  • B. Judge Rutherford
    Judge Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and a key figure in shaping the doctrines and global expansion of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 20th century.
  • C. Walden Schmidt
    Walden Schmidt is a wealthy, socially awkward internet billionaire who becomes one of the central characters in the sitcom "Two and a Half Men."
  • D. Stringer Bell
    Stringer Bell is a central character in the television series "The Wire," a calculating drug kingpin who studies business and economics to run his criminal organization like a legitimate enterprise.
  • E. Franklin Simmons
    Franklin Simmons was a 19th-century American sculptor known for his public monuments and commemorative statues, particularly those related to the Civil War.
  • 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_69ca82e6e2648190a31eaf6f4f757b2a completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7f557a7881908adcf353f7297848 completed March 31, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd958cf0808190af59e36c35b91e58 completed April 1, 2026, 10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdab5d649c819098a7643d5a0b7827 completed April 1, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdb2c2e2248190bf52466abaebfe29 completed April 2, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:55 p.m.