Triple

T9913366
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Day of the Locust (film) E185801 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Tod Hackett
Tod Hackett is the idealistic young Hollywood set designer and central figure of Nathanael West’s novel and its film adaptation "The Day of the Locust," whose disillusionment reflects the dark underside of the Hollywood dream.
E832601 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: Tod Hackett | Statement: [The Day of the Locust (film), mainCharacter, Tod Hackett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tod Hackett
Context triple: [The Day of the Locust (film), mainCharacter, Tod Hackett]
  • A. Tim Hackett
    Tim Hackett is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hackett, though detailed public information about him is limited.
  • B. Paul Hackett
    Paul Hackett is a former U.S. Marine and Iraq War veteran best known for his high-profile 2005 special election campaign as a Democratic congressional candidate in Ohio.
  • C. Joe Hackett
    Joe Hackett is the responsible, straight-laced airline pilot and co-owner of Sandpiper Air in the sitcom "Wings," often serving as the show's central everyman figure.
  • D. Brant Daugherty
    Brant Daugherty is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "Pretty Little Liars" and films including the "Fifty Shades" franchise.
  • E. Dan Hunt
    Dan Hunt is an American soccer executive and co-owner of FC Dallas, known for leading the Major League Soccer club founded by his family.
  • 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: Tod Hackett
Triple: [The Day of the Locust (film), mainCharacter, Tod Hackett]
Generated description
Tod Hackett is the idealistic young Hollywood set designer and central figure of Nathanael West’s novel and its film adaptation "The Day of the Locust," whose disillusionment reflects the dark underside of the Hollywood dream.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tod Hackett
Target entity description: Tod Hackett is the idealistic young Hollywood set designer and central figure of Nathanael West’s novel and its film adaptation "The Day of the Locust," whose disillusionment reflects the dark underside of the Hollywood dream.
  • A. Tim Hackett
    Tim Hackett is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hackett, though detailed public information about him is limited.
  • B. Paul Hackett
    Paul Hackett is a former U.S. Marine and Iraq War veteran best known for his high-profile 2005 special election campaign as a Democratic congressional candidate in Ohio.
  • C. Joe Hackett
    Joe Hackett is the responsible, straight-laced airline pilot and co-owner of Sandpiper Air in the sitcom "Wings," often serving as the show's central everyman figure.
  • D. Brant Daugherty
    Brant Daugherty is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "Pretty Little Liars" and films including the "Fifty Shades" franchise.
  • E. Dan Hunt
    Dan Hunt is an American soccer executive and co-owner of FC Dallas, known for leading the Major League Soccer club founded by his family.
  • 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_69ca829b45f481909040f7b99a1976ed completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb53a300481909d917e487d8aab56 completed April 2, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d23d22c56081909c3e4b8ca0e81fe7 completed April 5, 2026, 10:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d23e6ca3908190b7ad7b932ab35ad7 completed April 5, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d241020074819092bc2deea85a6ac0 completed April 5, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:41 p.m.