Triple

T912819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Blind Assassin E19699 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Alex Thomas
Alex Thomas is a charismatic, politically radical drifter whose intense, illicit relationship with Iris Chase drives much of the emotional and ideological tension in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin."
E108670 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: Alex Thomas | Statement: [The Blind Assassin, mainCharacter, Alex Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alex Thomas
Context triple: [The Blind Assassin, mainCharacter, Alex Thomas]
  • A. Jessica Barth
    Jessica Barth is an American actress best known for playing Tami-Lynn in the comedy films "Ted" and "Ted 2."
  • B. Emma Thomas
    Emma Thomas is a British film producer best known for her long-running collaboration with director Christopher Nolan on major films such as Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Oppenheimer.
  • C. Sarah Jane Emery
    Sarah Jane Emery was the wife of Hannibal Hamlin, who served as vice president of the United States under Abraham Lincoln.
  • D. Ann Harrod
    Ann Harrod was the wife of Thomas Boylston Adams, a lawyer and the youngest son of U.S. President John Adams.
  • E. Laura Hawkins
    Laura Hawkins was a childhood friend and early love interest of Mark Twain whose personality and experiences inspired the character Becky Thatcher in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
  • 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: Alex Thomas
Triple: [The Blind Assassin, mainCharacter, Alex Thomas]
Generated description
Alex Thomas is a charismatic, politically radical drifter whose intense, illicit relationship with Iris Chase drives much of the emotional and ideological tension in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alex Thomas
Target entity description: Alex Thomas is a charismatic, politically radical drifter whose intense, illicit relationship with Iris Chase drives much of the emotional and ideological tension in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin."
  • A. Jessica Barth
    Jessica Barth is an American actress best known for playing Tami-Lynn in the comedy films "Ted" and "Ted 2."
  • B. Emma Thomas
    Emma Thomas is a British film producer best known for her long-running collaboration with director Christopher Nolan on major films such as Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Oppenheimer.
  • C. Sarah Jane Emery
    Sarah Jane Emery was the wife of Hannibal Hamlin, who served as vice president of the United States under Abraham Lincoln.
  • D. Ann Harrod
    Ann Harrod was the wife of Thomas Boylston Adams, a lawyer and the youngest son of U.S. President John Adams.
  • E. Laura Hawkins
    Laura Hawkins was a childhood friend and early love interest of Mark Twain whose personality and experiences inspired the character Becky Thatcher in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2df9ba88190824437026796586f completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7cf5e59588190b9d2bb00adf5c871 completed March 4, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7d037e4608190a898b872cc3bfd8d completed March 4, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7d0b60f6881908060455f4a9b4ec6 completed March 4, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.