Triple

T18029701
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flicka E431352 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Howard McLaughlin
Howard McLaughlin is the young protagonist of the 1941 children's novel "My Friend Flicka," whose coming-of-age story centers on his bond with a spirited horse.
 E1360074 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: Howard McLaughlin | Statement: [Flicka, mainCharacter, Howard McLaughlin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard McLaughlin
Context triple: [Flicka, mainCharacter, Howard McLaughlin]
  • A. Ed McLaughlin
    Ed McLaughlin is an American college athletics administrator best known as the athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
  • B. Stuart E. McGowan
    Stuart E. McGowan was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for his work on Western films.
  • C. Philip Keenan
    Philip Keenan was an American astronomer best known for co-developing the Morgan–Keenan (MK) stellar classification system that remains a standard in astrophysics.
  • D. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • E. Robert J. McManus
    Robert J. McManus is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Worcester in Massachusetts.
  • 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: Howard McLaughlin
Triple: [Flicka, mainCharacter, Howard McLaughlin]
Generated description
Howard McLaughlin is the young protagonist of the 1941 children's novel "My Friend Flicka," whose coming-of-age story centers on his bond with a spirited horse.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard McLaughlin
Target entity description: Howard McLaughlin is the young protagonist of the 1941 children's novel "My Friend Flicka," whose coming-of-age story centers on his bond with a spirited horse.
  • A. Ed McLaughlin
    Ed McLaughlin is an American college athletics administrator best known as the athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
  • B. Stuart E. McGowan
    Stuart E. McGowan was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for his work on Western films.
  • C. Philip Keenan
    Philip Keenan was an American astronomer best known for co-developing the Morgan–Keenan (MK) stellar classification system that remains a standard in astrophysics.
  • D. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • E. Robert J. McManus
    Robert J. McManus is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Worcester in Massachusetts.
  • 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_69d8b9050fb48190890155145deb0a66 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4be347f6c8190b324fe74b7dc1764 completed April 19, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05e6528cf08190a304eebf76d8b79b completed May 14, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05e96742c8819086680fb949f8f1bc completed May 14, 2026, 3:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05ea69dea48190b97663a859645200 completed May 14, 2026, 3:29 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:25 a.m.