Triple

T11754218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Catch-22 E279483 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Colonel Cathcart
Colonel Cathcart is an ambitious, image-obsessed U.S. Army Air Corps officer in Joseph Heller’s novel "Catch-22," known for continually raising the number of missions his men must fly to advance his own career.
E945353 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: Colonel Cathcart | Statement: [Catch-22, mainCharacter, Colonel Cathcart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Cathcart
Context triple: [Catch-22, mainCharacter, Colonel Cathcart]
  • A. Colonel Lloyd
    Colonel Lloyd is a central fictional character in the "Little Colonel" series, portrayed as a proud, aristocratic Southern gentleman whose relationship with his granddaughter drives much of the stories’ drama and sentiment.
  • B. Colonel Nicholson
    Colonel Nicholson is the rigid, duty-bound British officer at the center of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," whose obsession with military discipline leads to morally ambiguous collaboration with his captors.
  • C. Colonel Howard
    Colonel Howard is a fictional military officer character featured in the film "The Pilot."
  • D. Colonel Smith
    Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
  • E. Colonel Osborne
    Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
  • 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: Colonel Cathcart
Triple: [Catch-22, mainCharacter, Colonel Cathcart]
Generated description
Colonel Cathcart is an ambitious, image-obsessed U.S. Army Air Corps officer in Joseph Heller’s novel "Catch-22," known for continually raising the number of missions his men must fly to advance his own career.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Cathcart
Target entity description: Colonel Cathcart is an ambitious, image-obsessed U.S. Army Air Corps officer in Joseph Heller’s novel "Catch-22," known for continually raising the number of missions his men must fly to advance his own career.
  • A. Colonel Lloyd
    Colonel Lloyd is a central fictional character in the "Little Colonel" series, portrayed as a proud, aristocratic Southern gentleman whose relationship with his granddaughter drives much of the stories’ drama and sentiment.
  • B. Colonel Nicholson
    Colonel Nicholson is the rigid, duty-bound British officer at the center of the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai," whose obsession with military discipline leads to morally ambiguous collaboration with his captors.
  • C. Colonel Howard
    Colonel Howard is a fictional military officer character featured in the film "The Pilot."
  • D. Colonel Smith
    Colonel Smith was a British military officer who played a leading role in the First Anglo-Mysore War against the Kingdom of Mysore in the late 18th century.
  • E. Colonel Osborne
    Colonel Osborne is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for his flirtatious behavior and the jealousy and marital discord his actions help provoke.
  • 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_69d6ab01038c819080714901502c84fc completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a50b8a14819092a7397d73f0a8e3 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f090416334819084dc63d896c0c04a completed April 28, 2026, 10:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0bd36673881908530b68e496c3d2e completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f0eec1f5d081908624fe2a93995fe5 completed April 28, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.