Triple

T8791522
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Warden Samuel Norton E209176 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Samuel Norton (novella character)
Samuel Norton (novella character) is the corrupt, Bible-quoting warden of Shawshank State Prison in Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," whose hypocrisy and abuse of power drive much of the story's conflict.
E756520 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 (novella character) | Statement: [Warden Samuel Norton, basedOn, Samuel Norton (novella character)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Norton (novella character)
Context triple: [Warden Samuel Norton, basedOn, Samuel Norton (novella character)]
  • A. Samuel March
    Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
  • B. Nathaniel
    Nathaniel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God," historically borne by various notable figures in literature, science, and religion.
  • C. Nathaniel Chambers
    Nathaniel Chambers is a computer scientist known for his work in natural language processing, particularly in narrative event understanding and script learning.
  • D. Franklin Evans
    Franklin Evans was an early 20th-century figure associated with polar exploration and research, recognized for his role in establishing the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England.
  • E. Nathan Clifford
    Nathan Clifford was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and lengthy, detailed opinions.
  • 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 (novella character)
Triple: [Warden Samuel Norton, basedOn, Samuel Norton (novella character)]
Generated description
Samuel Norton (novella character) is the corrupt, Bible-quoting warden of Shawshank State Prison in Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," whose hypocrisy and abuse of power drive much of the story's conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Norton (novella character)
Target entity description: Samuel Norton (novella character) is the corrupt, Bible-quoting warden of Shawshank State Prison in Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," whose hypocrisy and abuse of power drive much of the story's conflict.
  • A. Samuel March
    Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
  • B. Nathaniel
    Nathaniel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God," historically borne by various notable figures in literature, science, and religion.
  • C. Nathaniel Chambers
    Nathaniel Chambers is a computer scientist known for his work in natural language processing, particularly in narrative event understanding and script learning.
  • D. Franklin Evans
    Franklin Evans was an early 20th-century figure associated with polar exploration and research, recognized for his role in establishing the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England.
  • E. Nathan Clifford
    Nathan Clifford was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and lengthy, detailed opinions.
  • 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_69cf5220af84819095ddefd84fd9f369 completed April 3, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf5379dc748190a9b6522d7a68eed4 completed April 3, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf54129d888190b61d67f99ad36cb8 completed April 3, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:43 p.m.