Triple

T18334173
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject works of Robert E. Howard E439224 entity
Predicate containsCharacter P5716 FINISHED
Object Sailor Steve Costigan
Sailor Steve Costigan is a tough, brawling merchant seaman and amateur boxer who stars in Robert E. Howard’s humorous boxing adventure stories.
E1318330 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: Sailor Steve Costigan | Statement: [works of Robert E. Howard, containsCharacter, Sailor Steve Costigan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sailor Steve Costigan
Context triple: [works of Robert E. Howard, containsCharacter, Sailor Steve Costigan]
  • A. Reno Sweeney
    Reno Sweeney is the brassy, wisecracking nightclub singer and evangelist who serves as the charismatic leading lady in the classic Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes."
  • B. Rusty Ryan
    Rusty Ryan is a suave, quick-witted con man and Danny Ocean’s right-hand man in the Ocean’s film series, portrayed by Brad Pitt.
  • C. Ace Lannigan
    Ace Lannigan is a character from the 1940 Bing Crosby and Bob Hope comedy film "Road to Singapore."
  • D. Allan Chase
    Allan Chase is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the long-running American soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
  • E. Matthew Malone
    Matthew Malone is the central protagonist of the work "Game On," around whom the story’s main events and character development revolve.
  • 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: Sailor Steve Costigan
Triple: [works of Robert E. Howard, containsCharacter, Sailor Steve Costigan]
Generated description
Sailor Steve Costigan is a tough, brawling merchant seaman and amateur boxer who stars in Robert E. Howard’s humorous boxing adventure stories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sailor Steve Costigan
Target entity description: Sailor Steve Costigan is a tough, brawling merchant seaman and amateur boxer who stars in Robert E. Howard’s humorous boxing adventure stories.
  • A. Reno Sweeney
    Reno Sweeney is the brassy, wisecracking nightclub singer and evangelist who serves as the charismatic leading lady in the classic Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes."
  • B. Rusty Ryan
    Rusty Ryan is a suave, quick-witted con man and Danny Ocean’s right-hand man in the Ocean’s film series, portrayed by Brad Pitt.
  • C. Ace Lannigan
    Ace Lannigan is a character from the 1940 Bing Crosby and Bob Hope comedy film "Road to Singapore."
  • D. Allan Chase
    Allan Chase is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the long-running American soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
  • E. Matthew Malone
    Matthew Malone is the central protagonist of the work "Game On," around whom the story’s main events and character development revolve.
  • 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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e50ecc91148190aa820fcd466009ce completed April 19, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03c4d085748190bfd9a7e94f1344a5 completed May 13, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03c570ed348190a7e19eed29b06909 completed May 13, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03c5ec00a88190a93c3be5dd3bc6ee completed May 13, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:36 a.m.