Triple

T8361615
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Button, Button E197019 entity
Predicate antagonist P4675 FINISHED
Object Mr. Steward
Mr. Steward is a mysterious and morally ambiguous figure who tempts a couple with a life-altering, ethically fraught offer in Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button.”
E729018 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. Steward | Statement: [Button, Button, antagonist, Mr. Steward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Steward
Context triple: [Button, Button, antagonist, Mr. Steward]
  • A. Mr. McFeely
    Mr. McFeely is the speedy, friendly delivery man on the children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," known for his catchphrase "Speedy Delivery!"
  • B. Mr. Tappitt
    Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
  • C. Mr. Fletcher
    Mr. Fletcher is the video store owner in the comedy film "Be Kind Rewind," around whose struggling VHS rental shop the movie’s events and homemade remakes revolve.
  • D. Mr. Porter
    Mr. Porter is an American hip-hop producer and rapper best known as a longtime member of D12 and frequent collaborator of Eminem.
  • E. Jervis McEntee
    Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
  • 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. Steward
Triple: [Button, Button, antagonist, Mr. Steward]
Generated description
Mr. Steward is a mysterious and morally ambiguous figure who tempts a couple with a life-altering, ethically fraught offer in Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Steward
Target entity description: Mr. Steward is a mysterious and morally ambiguous figure who tempts a couple with a life-altering, ethically fraught offer in Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button.”
  • A. Mr. McFeely
    Mr. McFeely is the speedy, friendly delivery man on the children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," known for his catchphrase "Speedy Delivery!"
  • B. Mr. Tappitt
    Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
  • C. Mr. Fletcher
    Mr. Fletcher is the video store owner in the comedy film "Be Kind Rewind," around whose struggling VHS rental shop the movie’s events and homemade remakes revolve.
  • D. Mr. Porter
    Mr. Porter is an American hip-hop producer and rapper best known as a longtime member of D12 and frequent collaborator of Eminem.
  • E. Jervis McEntee
    Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
  • 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_69ca82f2dbe48190aba982e75a0d94de completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb8074e4588190b394d1622adca2cb completed March 31, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cdc77cf2ac8190a1c5b618fd64da73 completed April 2, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdcc872cc081909c75b3fb08b03e3f completed April 2, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdd15b53748190966a94b7e8c04880 completed April 2, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6 p.m.