Triple

T9732584
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Quiet American E235980 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Alden Pyle
Alden Pyle is the idealistic yet dangerously naive American operative in Graham Greene’s novel "The Quiet American," whose actions in Vietnam embody the unintended consequences of well-meaning intervention.
E818455 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: Alden Pyle | Statement: [The Quiet American, mainCharacter, Alden Pyle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alden Pyle
Context triple: [The Quiet American, mainCharacter, Alden Pyle]
  • A. Ransom Stoddard
    Ransom Stoddard is a principled lawyer-turned-politician in the classic Western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," whose rise to fame is built on a legendary but misunderstood act of frontier justice.
  • B. Montgomery Brewster
    Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
  • C. Joe DuBois
    Joe DuBois is a central character in the supernatural drama series "Medium," portrayed as Allison DuBois's supportive and pragmatic husband who balances family life with her psychic crime-solving work.
  • D. Ralph Kercheval
    Ralph Kercheval was an American football halfback and placekicker of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for his versatile backfield play and kicking in the National Football League.
  • E. Allan Blye
    Allan Blye is a Canadian television writer and producer known for his work on influential variety and comedy programs from the 1960s onward.
  • 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: Alden Pyle
Triple: [The Quiet American, mainCharacter, Alden Pyle]
Generated description
Alden Pyle is the idealistic yet dangerously naive American operative in Graham Greene’s novel "The Quiet American," whose actions in Vietnam embody the unintended consequences of well-meaning intervention.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alden Pyle
Target entity description: Alden Pyle is the idealistic yet dangerously naive American operative in Graham Greene’s novel "The Quiet American," whose actions in Vietnam embody the unintended consequences of well-meaning intervention.
  • A. Ransom Stoddard
    Ransom Stoddard is a principled lawyer-turned-politician in the classic Western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," whose rise to fame is built on a legendary but misunderstood act of frontier justice.
  • B. Montgomery Brewster
    Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
  • C. Joe DuBois
    Joe DuBois is a central character in the supernatural drama series "Medium," portrayed as Allison DuBois's supportive and pragmatic husband who balances family life with her psychic crime-solving work.
  • D. Ralph Kercheval
    Ralph Kercheval was an American football halfback and placekicker of the 1930s and 1940s, best known for his versatile backfield play and kicking in the National Football League.
  • E. Allan Blye
    Allan Blye is a Canadian television writer and producer known for his work on influential variety and comedy programs from the 1960s onward.
  • 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_69ca84d313e88190983ee6ffd0ef60d2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9eb3d6e4819090b3c7fb92550c57 completed April 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1afc4dcc4819096d29c1a0529d272 completed April 5, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1b06d39b48190adaadbc81b4ffb9a completed April 5, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1b1511c7c8190ba7bc691ab2d3a13 completed April 5, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:22 p.m.