Triple

T8562035
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sam & Max Hit the Road E202712 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Sam & Max comic series
The Sam & Max comic series is a cult-favorite, darkly comedic comic franchise created by Steve Purcell, following the absurd adventures of an anthropomorphic dog and hyperkinetic rabbity-thing who work as freelance police.
 E202712 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: Sam & Max comic series | Statement: [Sam & Max Hit the Road, basedOn, Sam & Max comic series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sam & Max comic series
Context triple: [Sam & Max Hit the Road, basedOn, Sam & Max comic series]
  • A. Sam & Max Hit the Road
    Sam & Max Hit the Road is a 1993 comedic point-and-click adventure game starring the freelance police duo Sam and Max as they investigate a bizarre cross-country mystery across the United States.
  • B. More Fun Comics
    More Fun Comics was an early American comic book series from DC Comics that featured a variety of adventure, humor, and superhero stories and helped launch several key characters in the Golden Age of comics.
  • C. The Venture Bros.
    The Venture Bros. is an animated television series that parodies and pays homage to classic adventure cartoons and pop culture through the misadventures of a dysfunctional super-science family and their bodyguard.
  • D. Hill House Comics
    Hill House Comics is a horror-focused comic book imprint curated by author Joe Hill and published under DC Comics, featuring a line of original, creator-driven horror series.
  • E. McCloud
    McCloud is an American television crime drama series from the 1970s featuring a New Mexico lawman working with the New York City Police Department.
  • 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: Sam & Max comic series
Triple: [Sam & Max Hit the Road, basedOn, Sam & Max comic series]
Generated description
The Sam & Max comic series is a cult-favorite, darkly comedic comic franchise created by Steve Purcell, following the absurd adventures of an anthropomorphic dog and hyperkinetic rabbity-thing who work as freelance police.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sam & Max comic series
Target entity description: The Sam & Max comic series is a cult-favorite, darkly comedic comic franchise created by Steve Purcell, following the absurd adventures of an anthropomorphic dog and hyperkinetic rabbity-thing who work as freelance police.
  • A. Sam & Max Hit the Road chosen
    Sam & Max Hit the Road is a 1993 comedic point-and-click adventure game starring the freelance police duo Sam and Max as they investigate a bizarre cross-country mystery across the United States.
  • B. More Fun Comics
    More Fun Comics was an early American comic book series from DC Comics that featured a variety of adventure, humor, and superhero stories and helped launch several key characters in the Golden Age of comics.
  • C. The Venture Bros.
    The Venture Bros. is an animated television series that parodies and pays homage to classic adventure cartoons and pop culture through the misadventures of a dysfunctional super-science family and their bodyguard.
  • D. Hill House Comics
    Hill House Comics is a horror-focused comic book imprint curated by author Joe Hill and published under DC Comics, featuring a line of original, creator-driven horror series.
  • E. McCloud
    McCloud is an American television crime drama series from the 1970s featuring a New Mexico lawman working with the New York City Police Department.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca8326e6c881908ff720d6abaebdc5 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe94c0c3c8190aca981c07b090dc0 completed March 31, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce895657188190886779180b783bf3 completed April 2, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce8a9ce1a08190a579f7f7a0319d01 completed April 2, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce8bdf1f148190ac832424661bd8e5 completed April 2, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:20 p.m.