Triple

T18207755
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cocaine Nights E435949 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Charles Prentice
Charles Prentice is the narrator and central character of J.G. Ballard’s novel "Cocaine Nights," whose investigation into a crime exposes the dark undercurrents of a seemingly idyllic expatriate community.
E1312036 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: Charles Prentice | Statement: [Cocaine Nights, protagonist, Charles Prentice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Prentice
Context triple: [Cocaine Nights, protagonist, Charles Prentice]
  • A. Charles Bingham
    Charles Bingham was a 19th-century figure best known as a son of the prominent American missionary Hiram Bingham I, who played a key role in early Protestant missions to Hawaii.
  • B. William Cottrell
    William Cottrell was an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on classic Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
  • C. William Brazel
    William Brazel was the New Mexico rancher whose discovery of mysterious debris on his property in 1947 sparked what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • D. William Pritchard
    William Pritchard is a Canadian municipal politician known for serving as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • E. George Richards
    George Richards is the person after whom the oceanic feature known as Richards Deep is named, indicating his significance in the context of marine or geographic exploration or research.
  • 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: Charles Prentice
Triple: [Cocaine Nights, protagonist, Charles Prentice]
Generated description
Charles Prentice is the narrator and central character of J.G. Ballard’s novel "Cocaine Nights," whose investigation into a crime exposes the dark undercurrents of a seemingly idyllic expatriate community.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Prentice
Target entity description: Charles Prentice is the narrator and central character of J.G. Ballard’s novel "Cocaine Nights," whose investigation into a crime exposes the dark undercurrents of a seemingly idyllic expatriate community.
  • A. Charles Bingham
    Charles Bingham was a 19th-century figure best known as a son of the prominent American missionary Hiram Bingham I, who played a key role in early Protestant missions to Hawaii.
  • B. William Cottrell
    William Cottrell was an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on classic Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
  • C. William Brazel
    William Brazel was the New Mexico rancher whose discovery of mysterious debris on his property in 1947 sparked what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
  • D. William Pritchard
    William Pritchard is a Canadian municipal politician known for serving as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
  • E. George Richards
    George Richards is the person after whom the oceanic feature known as Richards Deep is named, indicating his significance in the context of marine or geographic exploration or research.
  • 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_69d8b90dba6481908e119eb9aa4ca0cb completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4e2261a848190b62a8485009f8f38 completed April 19, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a039f10036c8190a1537632a19f0e23 completed May 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a039febd13881908423ee008d3ba1c3 completed May 12, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03a088b4a0819093720af0308060ee completed May 12, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:32 a.m.