Triple

T8619501
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Colour Out of Space E204126 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Nahum Gardner
Nahum Gardner is a New England farmer in H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Colour Out of Space," whose land and family are slowly corrupted by a mysterious extraterrestrial presence.
E754269 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: Nahum Gardner | Statement: [The Colour Out of Space, hasCharacter, Nahum Gardner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nahum Gardner
Context triple: [The Colour Out of Space, hasCharacter, Nahum Gardner]
  • A. Lucian Johnston
    Lucian Johnston is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed horror drama "Midsommar."
  • B. Granville Hicks
    Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
  • C. Gardner Campbell
    Gardner Campbell is a prominent educator and advocate for digital learning and innovation in higher education.
  • D. Robert Hodges
    Robert Hodges is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, and without additional context it most commonly refers to various professionals or public figures rather than a single widely recognized person.
  • E. William Ashburner
    William Ashburner was a 19th-century American mining engineer and geologist known for his work in mineral surveying and resource assessment in the western United States.
  • 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: Nahum Gardner
Triple: [The Colour Out of Space, hasCharacter, Nahum Gardner]
Generated description
Nahum Gardner is a New England farmer in H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Colour Out of Space," whose land and family are slowly corrupted by a mysterious extraterrestrial presence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nahum Gardner
Target entity description: Nahum Gardner is a New England farmer in H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Colour Out of Space," whose land and family are slowly corrupted by a mysterious extraterrestrial presence.
  • A. Lucian Johnston
    Lucian Johnston is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed horror drama "Midsommar."
  • B. Granville Hicks
    Granville Hicks was an American literary critic, novelist, and educator known for his Marxist-influenced criticism and his role in mid-20th-century American literary and political debates.
  • C. Gardner Campbell
    Gardner Campbell is a prominent educator and advocate for digital learning and innovation in higher education.
  • D. Robert Hodges
    Robert Hodges is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, and without additional context it most commonly refers to various professionals or public figures rather than a single widely recognized person.
  • E. William Ashburner
    William Ashburner was a 19th-century American mining engineer and geologist known for his work in mineral surveying and resource assessment in the western United States.
  • 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_69ca832ceab8819096e4a9f546695079 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc471458f48190a6d8858f8074727d completed March 31, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf425b8a2c81909b1f8ce5da6d36fd completed April 3, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf43bd0f8c8190be2f7dc86f1e76e1 completed April 3, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf444c9cb08190a37f34faa4a3458d completed April 3, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:26 p.m.