Triple

T14013614
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shadow E337149 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Lamont Cranston
Lamont Cranston is the alter ego of the pulp-era crime-fighting vigilante known as The Shadow, a mysterious figure who battles criminals using stealth, disguise, and psychic abilities.
E1073108 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: Lamont Cranston | Statement: [The Shadow, hasMainCharacter, Lamont Cranston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lamont Cranston
Context triple: [The Shadow, hasMainCharacter, Lamont Cranston]
  • A. Jack Weston
    Jack Weston was an American character actor known for his comic and dramatic roles in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • B. Archie Goodwin
    Archie Goodwin is the witty, street-smart assistant and narrator who serves as the legman for armchair detective Nero Wolfe in Rex Stout’s mystery stories.
  • C. Archie Goodwin
    Archie Goodwin was an influential American comic book writer, editor, and longtime Marvel and DC contributor renowned for his storytelling and editorial leadership in the industry.
  • D. Guy Haines
    Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
  • E. Jack Crawford
    Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
  • 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: Lamont Cranston
Triple: [The Shadow, hasMainCharacter, Lamont Cranston]
Generated description
Lamont Cranston is the alter ego of the pulp-era crime-fighting vigilante known as The Shadow, a mysterious figure who battles criminals using stealth, disguise, and psychic abilities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lamont Cranston
Target entity description: Lamont Cranston is the alter ego of the pulp-era crime-fighting vigilante known as The Shadow, a mysterious figure who battles criminals using stealth, disguise, and psychic abilities.
  • A. Jack Weston
    Jack Weston was an American character actor known for his comic and dramatic roles in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1980s.
  • B. Archie Goodwin
    Archie Goodwin is the witty, street-smart assistant and narrator who serves as the legman for armchair detective Nero Wolfe in Rex Stout’s mystery stories.
  • C. Archie Goodwin
    Archie Goodwin was an influential American comic book writer, editor, and longtime Marvel and DC contributor renowned for his storytelling and editorial leadership in the industry.
  • D. Guy Haines
    Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
  • E. Jack Crawford
    Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
  • 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_69d81c645c5c8190b1fd16a285a1b78a completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2f37d11481909159bdb9e1e8d38e completed April 14, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fbacaa16e88190995fd86951fb54e6 completed May 6, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fbada0a2408190b77d163aee17400e completed May 6, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fbaeeeb594819087b57da166495a72 completed May 6, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:19 p.m.