Triple

T8640239
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Live by Night E204625 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Joe Coughlin
Joe Coughlin is a Prohibition-era World War I veteran who becomes a Boston outlaw and rum-running gangster in Dennis Lehane’s crime novel "Live by Night."
E746563 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: Joe Coughlin | Statement: [Live by Night, mainCharacter, Joe Coughlin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Coughlin
Context triple: [Live by Night, mainCharacter, Joe Coughlin]
  • A. Steve Spagnuolo
    Steve Spagnuolo is an American football coach best known as a defensive mastermind in the NFL, including coordinating multiple Super Bowl–winning defenses.
  • B. Bill O'Brien
    Bill O'Brien is a fictional political rival character in the television series "Veep," opposing protagonist Selina Meyer in her pursuit of power.
  • C. Mike Pettine
    Mike Pettine is an American football coach best known for his defensive expertise in the NFL, including serving as a defensive coordinator and head coach for multiple teams.
  • D. Tom Coughlin
    Tom Coughlin is an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl championships.
  • E. John Tusa
    John Tusa is a British arts administrator, broadcaster, and former managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Centre.
  • 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: Joe Coughlin
Triple: [Live by Night, mainCharacter, Joe Coughlin]
Generated description
Joe Coughlin is a Prohibition-era World War I veteran who becomes a Boston outlaw and rum-running gangster in Dennis Lehane’s crime novel "Live by Night."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Coughlin
Target entity description: Joe Coughlin is a Prohibition-era World War I veteran who becomes a Boston outlaw and rum-running gangster in Dennis Lehane’s crime novel "Live by Night."
  • A. Steve Spagnuolo
    Steve Spagnuolo is an American football coach best known as a defensive mastermind in the NFL, including coordinating multiple Super Bowl–winning defenses.
  • B. Bill O'Brien
    Bill O'Brien is a fictional political rival character in the television series "Veep," opposing protagonist Selina Meyer in her pursuit of power.
  • C. Mike Pettine
    Mike Pettine is an American football coach best known for his defensive expertise in the NFL, including serving as a defensive coordinator and head coach for multiple teams.
  • D. Tom Coughlin
    Tom Coughlin is an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants to two Super Bowl championships.
  • E. John Tusa
    John Tusa is a British arts administrator, broadcaster, and former managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Centre.
  • 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_69ca834ca1c88190a11ffb0200342fac completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc47944d1c819081f448f14d04bf9d completed March 31, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebc340528819085c80b69d6d32a34 completed April 2, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebcdb197881908eeb6c5e4b225a2c completed April 2, 2026, 7 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cebd85ad8481909518afd02dbc5358 completed April 2, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:28 p.m.