Triple

T8880221
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sean Murray E211389 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus
Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus is the 17th-century Salem teenager who is cursed by witches and later aids modern-day children in stopping them.
 E765313 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: Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus | Statement: [Sean Murray, portrayed, Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus
Context triple: [Sean Murray, portrayed, Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus]
  • A. Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus
    Billy Butcherson is the resurrected, wisecracking zombie ex-lover of Winifred Sanderson who becomes an unlikely ally to the protagonists in the Halloween comedy film "Hocus Pocus."
  • B. Jack Skellington
    Jack Skellington is the skeletal "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town and the iconic protagonist of Tim Burton’s stop-motion film *The Nightmare Before Christmas*.
  • C. Casper the Friendly Ghost
    Casper the Friendly Ghost is a classic cartoon and comic character known as a gentle, kind-hearted ghost who prefers making friends with humans instead of scaring them.
  • D. Hocus Pocus
    Hocus Pocus is a 1993 fantasy-comedy film about three resurrected witches wreaking havoc in modern-day Salem, which has since become a cult Halloween classic.
  • E. Wilbur Whateley
    Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
  • 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: Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus
Triple: [Sean Murray, portrayed, Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus]
Generated description
Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus is the 17th-century Salem teenager who is cursed by witches and later aids modern-day children in stopping them.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus
Target entity description: Thackery Binx (human form) in Hocus Pocus is the 17th-century Salem teenager who is cursed by witches and later aids modern-day children in stopping them.
  • A. Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus
    Billy Butcherson is the resurrected, wisecracking zombie ex-lover of Winifred Sanderson who becomes an unlikely ally to the protagonists in the Halloween comedy film "Hocus Pocus."
  • B. Jack Skellington
    Jack Skellington is the skeletal "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town and the iconic protagonist of Tim Burton’s stop-motion film *The Nightmare Before Christmas*.
  • C. Casper the Friendly Ghost
    Casper the Friendly Ghost is a classic cartoon and comic character known as a gentle, kind-hearted ghost who prefers making friends with humans instead of scaring them.
  • D. Hocus Pocus
    Hocus Pocus is a 1993 fantasy-comedy film about three resurrected witches wreaking havoc in modern-day Salem, which has since become a cult Halloween classic.
  • E. Wilbur Whateley
    Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
  • 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_69ca838f9e20819096ab1f236a70381a completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc61677c9c8190aa09dc2a05d4cf95 completed April 1, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfabc1992481909e8a4216086d5111 completed April 3, 2026, noon
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfadbfa4888190931c76599631366a completed April 3, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfae3a88dc81908419c44bc83b188a completed April 3, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:52 p.m.