Triple

T9795084
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Howling Man E237697 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object David Ellington
David Ellington is the protagonist of the classic The Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man," a traveler who becomes entangled in a sinister mystery at a remote European monastery.
E827922 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: David Ellington | Statement: [The Howling Man, featuresCharacter, David Ellington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Ellington
Context triple: [The Howling Man, featuresCharacter, David Ellington]
  • A. Mercer Ellington
    Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
  • B. Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
  • C. Cecil McBee
    Cecil McBee is an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the 1960s avant-garde and post-bop scenes and collaborations with numerous influential bandleaders.
  • D. James Edward Ellington
    James Edward Ellington was a member of the Ellington family, related to Daisy Kennedy Ellington and part of the broader lineage associated with jazz composer Duke Ellington.
  • E. William Henderson
    William Henderson was an early settler and landowner after whom the town of Henderson in Jefferson County, New York, was 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: David Ellington
Triple: [The Howling Man, featuresCharacter, David Ellington]
Generated description
David Ellington is the protagonist of the classic The Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man," a traveler who becomes entangled in a sinister mystery at a remote European monastery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Ellington
Target entity description: David Ellington is the protagonist of the classic The Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man," a traveler who becomes entangled in a sinister mystery at a remote European monastery.
  • A. Mercer Ellington
    Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
  • B. Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
  • C. Cecil McBee
    Cecil McBee is an American jazz double bassist known for his work in the 1960s avant-garde and post-bop scenes and collaborations with numerous influential bandleaders.
  • D. James Edward Ellington
    James Edward Ellington was a member of the Ellington family, related to Daisy Kennedy Ellington and part of the broader lineage associated with jazz composer Duke Ellington.
  • E. William Henderson
    William Henderson was an early settler and landowner after whom the town of Henderson in Jefferson County, New York, was 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_69ca84dc04488190b9c91193976c0960 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda34916dc8190acef2ba003e56a33 completed April 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1eac78b1881908e77c3678f98fac9 completed April 5, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1ed7a2040819080ee965cdba528c2 completed April 5, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1ee159e7081908ff1299a41e66f98 completed April 5, 2026, 5:07 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:28 p.m.