Triple

T9356498
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Prayer for Owen Meany E225152 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Dan Needham
Dan Needham is a kind, intellectually inclined drama teacher and stepfather figure in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," known for his gentle support of the protagonist.
E794103 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: Dan Needham | Statement: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Dan Needham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Needham
Context triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Dan Needham]
  • A. David Healy
    David Healy is a sensitive, artistic young man and Darlene Conner’s long-term love interest and eventual husband on the sitcom "Roseanne" and its spin-off "The Conners."
  • B. David Healy
    David Healy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who became a successful manager in the Irish League.
  • C. John Requa
    John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
  • D. Robert Morton
    Robert Morton is an American television producer best known for his work as executive producer of the late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman."
  • E. William Drennan
    William Drennan was an Irish physician, poet, and political radical best known as a leading advocate of Irish republicanism and civil rights in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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: Dan Needham
Triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Dan Needham]
Generated description
Dan Needham is a kind, intellectually inclined drama teacher and stepfather figure in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," known for his gentle support of the protagonist.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Needham
Target entity description: Dan Needham is a kind, intellectually inclined drama teacher and stepfather figure in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," known for his gentle support of the protagonist.
  • A. David Healy
    David Healy is a sensitive, artistic young man and Darlene Conner’s long-term love interest and eventual husband on the sitcom "Roseanne" and its spin-off "The Conners."
  • B. David Healy
    David Healy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who became a successful manager in the Irish League.
  • C. John Requa
    John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
  • D. Robert Morton
    Robert Morton is an American television producer best known for his work as executive producer of the late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman."
  • E. William Drennan
    William Drennan was an Irish physician, poet, and political radical best known as a leading advocate of Irish republicanism and civil rights in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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_69ca842abfd48190949d71c3b86eeba8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd4fee9d4c8190a7d121c9487ccca2 completed April 1, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0f3d248a88190b7d17af66e2903c5 completed April 4, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0f46bd034819093e7157a3e1ac1fc completed April 4, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0f5bf64548190b40e97b279db5105 completed April 4, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:42 p.m.