Triple

T14702390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Saxon E345337 entity
Predicate playedCharacter P1507 FINISHED
Object Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street
Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street is the skeptical police officer and father of Nancy Thompson, whose denial and past actions are central to the film’s conflict with Freddy Krueger.
E1115722 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: Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street | Statement: [John Saxon, playedCharacter, Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street
Context triple: [John Saxon, playedCharacter, Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street]
  • A. Detective Lennox in Fright Night
    Detective Lennox in *Fright Night* is a skeptical police detective who dismisses the protagonist’s claims about his neighbor being a vampire, adding grounded, procedural tension to the horror-comedy film.
  • B. Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger
    Nancy Thompson is the resourceful teenage protagonist of the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street," who battles the supernatural killer Freddy Krueger in her dreams.
  • C. Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play
    Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play is the homicide detective who investigates the mysterious murders linked to a possessed doll and becomes a key ally to young Andy Barclay.
  • D. Lt. Alex McCarthy in Maniac Cop
    Lt. Alex McCarthy in *Maniac Cop* is a hard-nosed New York City police lieutenant who investigates a series of brutal murders linked to a seemingly unstoppable, vengeful cop.
  • E. Freddy Krueger is a dream-stalking serial killer
    Freddy Krueger is a fictional supernatural serial killer from the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" horror franchise, known for haunting and murdering his victims in their dreams while wearing a bladed glove.
  • 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: Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street
Triple: [John Saxon, playedCharacter, Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street]
Generated description
Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street is the skeptical police officer and father of Nancy Thompson, whose denial and past actions are central to the film’s conflict with Freddy Krueger.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street
Target entity description: Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street is the skeptical police officer and father of Nancy Thompson, whose denial and past actions are central to the film’s conflict with Freddy Krueger.
  • A. Detective Lennox in Fright Night
    Detective Lennox in *Fright Night* is a skeptical police detective who dismisses the protagonist’s claims about his neighbor being a vampire, adding grounded, procedural tension to the horror-comedy film.
  • B. Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger
    Nancy Thompson is the resourceful teenage protagonist of the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street," who battles the supernatural killer Freddy Krueger in her dreams.
  • C. Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play
    Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play is the homicide detective who investigates the mysterious murders linked to a possessed doll and becomes a key ally to young Andy Barclay.
  • D. Lt. Alex McCarthy in Maniac Cop
    Lt. Alex McCarthy in *Maniac Cop* is a hard-nosed New York City police lieutenant who investigates a series of brutal murders linked to a seemingly unstoppable, vengeful cop.
  • E. Freddy Krueger is a dream-stalking serial killer
    Freddy Krueger is a fictional supernatural serial killer from the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" horror franchise, known for haunting and murdering his victims in their dreams while wearing a bladed glove.
  • 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_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb6071e5c8190bb5509c859135c2d completed April 14, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdf0861c308190af0b5da403ecb321 completed May 8, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdf368782c8190825247435eab2045 completed May 8, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdf3fe50ac8190ad5529427472eda3 completed May 8, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.