Triple

T9660819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Equus (play) E233584 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Alan Strang
Alan Strang is the troubled teenage protagonist of Peter Shaffer’s play "Equus," whose violent religious and sexual obsession with horses drives the drama’s psychological exploration.
E812757 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: Alan Strang | Statement: [Equus (play), mainCharacter, Alan Strang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Strang
Context triple: [Equus (play), mainCharacter, Alan Strang]
  • A. Steven Stroud
    Steven Stroud is an American illustrator and cover artist known for his work on numerous science fiction and fantasy book covers.
  • B. Alex Reiger
    Alex Reiger is the level-headed, philosophical cab driver who serves as the central character in the classic television sitcom "Taxi."
  • C. John Stonehouse
    John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
  • D. Alan Keen
    Alan Keen was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Feltham and Heston from 1992 until his death in 2011.
  • E. Charles Storrs
    Charles Storrs was a benefactor and early supporter of the institution that became the University of Connecticut, for whom the town of Storrs is named.
  • 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: Alan Strang
Triple: [Equus (play), mainCharacter, Alan Strang]
Generated description
Alan Strang is the troubled teenage protagonist of Peter Shaffer’s play "Equus," whose violent religious and sexual obsession with horses drives the drama’s psychological exploration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Strang
Target entity description: Alan Strang is the troubled teenage protagonist of Peter Shaffer’s play "Equus," whose violent religious and sexual obsession with horses drives the drama’s psychological exploration.
  • A. Steven Stroud
    Steven Stroud is an American illustrator and cover artist known for his work on numerous science fiction and fantasy book covers.
  • B. Alex Reiger
    Alex Reiger is the level-headed, philosophical cab driver who serves as the central character in the classic television sitcom "Taxi."
  • C. John Stonehouse
    John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
  • D. Alan Keen
    Alan Keen was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Feltham and Heston from 1992 until his death in 2011.
  • E. Charles Storrs
    Charles Storrs was a benefactor and early supporter of the institution that became the University of Connecticut, for whom the town of Storrs is named.
  • 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_69ca848d3b6c8190ae98ea554dea58df completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9c0a15e4819092ea0fb2cb6e1c12 completed April 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18a0ff7548190ae438c4a334058ac completed April 4, 2026, 10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18a8e0fbc8190912439815bab4677 completed April 4, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d18afe54c88190846a873443aa56ef completed April 4, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:14 p.m.