Triple

T8791515
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Warden Samuel Norton E209176 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Samuel Norton
Samuel Norton is a fictional, authoritarian prison warden and primary antagonist in Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" and its film adaptation "The Shawshank Redemption."
E762856 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: Samuel Norton | Statement: [Warden Samuel Norton, name, Samuel Norton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Norton
Context triple: [Warden Samuel Norton, name, Samuel Norton]
  • A. Lemuel Shaw
    Lemuel Shaw was a prominent 19th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was the father-in-law of novelist Herman Melville.
  • B. Amasa Stone
    Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • C. James Mott
    James Mott was a 19th-century American Quaker merchant and reformer known for his support of abolitionism and women’s rights alongside his wife, Lucretia Mott.
  • D. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • E. Benjamin Coffin III
    Benjamin Coffin III is a central antagonist in the musical "Rent," portrayed as the former roommate-turned-landlord whose actions highlight themes of gentrification and conflict with the bohemian main characters.
  • 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: Samuel Norton
Triple: [Warden Samuel Norton, name, Samuel Norton]
Generated description
Samuel Norton is a fictional, authoritarian prison warden and primary antagonist in Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" and its film adaptation "The Shawshank Redemption."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Norton
Target entity description: Samuel Norton is a fictional, authoritarian prison warden and primary antagonist in Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" and its film adaptation "The Shawshank Redemption."
  • A. Lemuel Shaw
    Lemuel Shaw was a prominent 19th-century American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was the father-in-law of novelist Herman Melville.
  • B. Amasa Stone
    Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • C. James Mott
    James Mott was a 19th-century American Quaker merchant and reformer known for his support of abolitionism and women’s rights alongside his wife, Lucretia Mott.
  • D. Samuel Ellis
    Samuel Ellis was the landowner after whom Ellis Island in New York Harbor was named.
  • E. Benjamin Coffin III
    Benjamin Coffin III is a central antagonist in the musical "Rent," portrayed as the former roommate-turned-landlord whose actions highlight themes of gentrification and conflict with the bohemian main characters.
  • 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_69ca836240888190a62b262e56a69d2f completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5f8e6e4881909155c40c52bc082c completed March 31, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfa046aabc8190abca2957593edc8b completed April 3, 2026, 11:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfa14f0f3c8190bf7081e51410a491 completed April 3, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfa28589708190b8fc32f4944d0a37 completed April 3, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:43 p.m.