Triple

T8316665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lottery E194721 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Old Man Warner
Old Man Warner is the oldest and most traditionalist villager in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” embodying unquestioning adherence to the town’s brutal ritual.
 E725663 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: Old Man Warner | Statement: [The Lottery, notableCharacter, Old Man Warner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Old Man Warner
Context triple: [The Lottery, notableCharacter, Old Man Warner]
  • A. Old Man
    "Old Man" is a classic folk-rock song by Neil Young, known for its reflective lyrics about aging and life perspective, originally released on his 1972 album "Harvest."
  • B. George Land
    George Land is the largest island in the remote Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land in northern Russia.
  • C. the Old Man
    The Old Man is a central, symbolic figure in Ernest Hemingway’s novella "The Old Man and the Sea," representing endurance, dignity, and the human struggle against overwhelming odds.
  • D. Prior Velho
    Prior Velho is a locality in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal, situated near the town of Sacavém and close to Lisbon’s main airport.
  • E. Weni the Elder
    Weni the Elder was a prominent ancient Egyptian official and military commander who served several pharaohs during the Sixth Dynasty, known from his detailed autobiographical tomb inscription.
  • 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: Old Man Warner
Triple: [The Lottery, notableCharacter, Old Man Warner]
Generated description
Old Man Warner is the oldest and most traditionalist villager in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” embodying unquestioning adherence to the town’s brutal ritual.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Old Man Warner
Target entity description: Old Man Warner is the oldest and most traditionalist villager in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” embodying unquestioning adherence to the town’s brutal ritual.
  • A. Old Man
    "Old Man" is a classic folk-rock song by Neil Young, known for its reflective lyrics about aging and life perspective, originally released on his 1972 album "Harvest."
  • B. George Land
    George Land is the largest island in the remote Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land in northern Russia.
  • C. the Old Man
    The Old Man is a central, symbolic figure in Ernest Hemingway’s novella "The Old Man and the Sea," representing endurance, dignity, and the human struggle against overwhelming odds.
  • D. Prior Velho
    Prior Velho is a locality in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal, situated near the town of Sacavém and close to Lisbon’s main airport.
  • E. Weni the Elder
    Weni the Elder was a prominent ancient Egyptian official and military commander who served several pharaohs during the Sixth Dynasty, known from his detailed autobiographical tomb inscription.
  • 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.