Triple

T20361154
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Slackers E496782 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ethan Dulles
Ethan Dulles is the central protagonist of the film "Slackers," around whom the story’s comedic misadventures revolve.
E1427100 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: Ethan Dulles | Statement: [Slackers, mainCharacter, Ethan Dulles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethan Dulles
Context triple: [Slackers, mainCharacter, Ethan Dulles]
  • A. Frank Wisner
    Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
  • B. Jack F. Matlock Jr.
    Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
  • C. Warren Berlinger
    Warren Berlinger was an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and stage from the 1950s onward.
  • D. William R. Pogue
    William R. Pogue was an American astronaut, U.S. Air Force pilot, and Skylab 4 crew member known for his long-duration spaceflight and contributions to space station operations.
  • E. John Miller Dickey
    John Miller Dickey was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educator best known for helping to establish one of the earliest higher-education institutions for African Americans, later known as Lincoln University.
  • 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: Ethan Dulles
Triple: [Slackers, mainCharacter, Ethan Dulles]
Generated description
Ethan Dulles is the central protagonist of the film "Slackers," around whom the story’s comedic misadventures revolve.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethan Dulles
Target entity description: Ethan Dulles is the central protagonist of the film "Slackers," around whom the story’s comedic misadventures revolve.
  • A. Frank Wisner
    Frank Wisner was a prominent American intelligence officer who became a key architect of early U.S. covert operations during and after World War II.
  • B. Jack F. Matlock Jr.
    Jack F. Matlock Jr. is an American diplomat and scholar best known for serving as the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the closing years of the Cold War.
  • C. Warren Berlinger
    Warren Berlinger was an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and stage from the 1950s onward.
  • D. William R. Pogue
    William R. Pogue was an American astronaut, U.S. Air Force pilot, and Skylab 4 crew member known for his long-duration spaceflight and contributions to space station operations.
  • E. John Miller Dickey
    John Miller Dickey was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educator best known for helping to establish one of the earliest higher-education institutions for African Americans, later known as Lincoln University.
  • 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_69e0b4a3f7f48190b37f354574028ca6 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6786de5988190827584358c9db147 completed April 20, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08708592f481908de58a0d359af01f completed May 16, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0871146b248190ac91cf010a984e1f completed May 16, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0871a818688190ad69bcf84e33d014 completed May 16, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:25 a.m.