Triple

T971281
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats E20949 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Skimbleshanks
Skimbleshanks is a fictional railway cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known from *Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats* and its musical adaptation *Cats*.
E116961 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: Skimbleshanks | Statement: [Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, hasCharacter, Skimbleshanks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Skimbleshanks
Context triple: [Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, hasCharacter, Skimbleshanks]
  • A. Bustopher Jones
    Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
  • B. Prancer
    Prancer is one of Santa Claus's legendary flying reindeer, traditionally depicted as helping pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
  • C. Mr. Mistoffelees
    Mr. Mistoffelees is a magical black-and-white cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known today through his prominent role in the musical "Cats."
  • D. Pepé Le Pew
    Pepé Le Pew is a romantic, overly confident skunk from the Looney Tunes cartoons, best known for his comedic, French-accented pursuit of love.
  • E. Buster
    Buster is the nickname of Vivian Burey Marshall, the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
  • 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: Skimbleshanks
Triple: [Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, hasCharacter, Skimbleshanks]
Generated description
Skimbleshanks is a fictional railway cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known from *Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats* and its musical adaptation *Cats*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Skimbleshanks
Target entity description: Skimbleshanks is a fictional railway cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known from *Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats* and its musical adaptation *Cats*.
  • A. Bustopher Jones
    Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
  • B. Prancer
    Prancer is one of Santa Claus's legendary flying reindeer, traditionally depicted as helping pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
  • C. Mr. Mistoffelees
    Mr. Mistoffelees is a magical black-and-white cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known today through his prominent role in the musical "Cats."
  • D. Pepé Le Pew
    Pepé Le Pew is a romantic, overly confident skunk from the Looney Tunes cartoons, best known for his comedic, French-accented pursuit of love.
  • E. Buster
    Buster is the nickname of Vivian Burey Marshall, the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
  • 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_69a493b33d2c81909c52c369d3ca8436 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b44aa6088190a90c44a8f694ec41 completed March 1, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac2586fd7c8190ba77b327bad4bb69 completed March 7, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac265d40848190a86d56c132ec2a03 completed March 7, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac26f947d481908ab1b7115cf9dee7 completed March 7, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.