Triple

T8495307
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Man in the Maze E201083 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Charles Boardman
Charles Boardman is a central intelligence operative in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," known for orchestrating the mission involving the telepathic outcast Richard Muller.
 E743065 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: Charles Boardman | Statement: [The Man in the Maze, hasCharacter, Charles Boardman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Boardman
Context triple: [The Man in the Maze, hasCharacter, Charles Boardman]
  • A. Lloyd Goodrich
    Lloyd Goodrich was an influential American art historian, curator, and longtime director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, known for championing American artists.
  • B. Thomas Mayne
    Thomas Mayne was an Australian food scientist best known for creating the chocolate malted milk drink Milo in the 1930s.
  • C. Charles Guggenheim
    Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
  • D. Hugh Platt
    Hugh Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
  • E. Sidney Badgley
    Sidney Badgley was a Canadian-born architect known for designing prominent churches and public buildings across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Charles Boardman
Triple: [The Man in the Maze, hasCharacter, Charles Boardman]
Generated description
Charles Boardman is a central intelligence operative in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," known for orchestrating the mission involving the telepathic outcast Richard Muller.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Boardman
Target entity description: Charles Boardman is a central intelligence operative in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," known for orchestrating the mission involving the telepathic outcast Richard Muller.
  • A. Lloyd Goodrich
    Lloyd Goodrich was an influential American art historian, curator, and longtime director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, known for championing American artists.
  • B. Thomas Mayne
    Thomas Mayne was an Australian food scientist best known for creating the chocolate malted milk drink Milo in the 1930s.
  • C. Charles Guggenheim
    Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
  • D. Hugh Platt
    Hugh Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
  • E. Sidney Badgley
    Sidney Badgley was a Canadian-born architect known for designing prominent churches and public buildings across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69ca831ee390819095fae73400bbfafc completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe57dbe488190af5f06faf862cd5d completed March 31, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce88d3e2808190856ee01cc20fbaec completed April 2, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce8b61a8f48190aa4555d39056ee16 completed April 2, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce8c03480081909120e2f790fe4394 completed April 2, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.