Triple

T20388041
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hold the Dark E498007 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Vernon Slone
Vernon Slone is a mysterious and violent Iraq War veteran whose return to his Alaskan hometown drives much of the dark, psychological tension in the novel "Hold the Dark."
 E1429875 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: Vernon Slone | Statement: [Hold the Dark, mainCharacter, Vernon Slone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vernon Slone
Context triple: [Hold the Dark, mainCharacter, Vernon Slone]
  • A. Earle Hyman
    Earle Hyman was an American actor best known for his role as Russell Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
  • B. Lloyd Sherr
    Lloyd Sherr is an American voice actor best known for replacing George Carlin as the voice of Fillmore in the Cars animated film franchise.
  • C. Lester Melroe
    Lester Melroe was an American inventor and entrepreneur best known for developing the compact skid-steer loader that led to the creation of the Bobcat brand.
  • D. Ralph Fine
    Ralph Fine is the namesake of Fine Hall, the mathematics building at Princeton University.
  • E. Marvin Duchow
    Marvin Duchow was a Canadian musicologist and influential professor of music at McGill University, known for his scholarship in Renaissance and Baroque music.
  • 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: Vernon Slone
Triple: [Hold the Dark, mainCharacter, Vernon Slone]
Generated description
Vernon Slone is a mysterious and violent Iraq War veteran whose return to his Alaskan hometown drives much of the dark, psychological tension in the novel "Hold the Dark."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vernon Slone
Target entity description: Vernon Slone is a mysterious and violent Iraq War veteran whose return to his Alaskan hometown drives much of the dark, psychological tension in the novel "Hold the Dark."
  • A. Earle Hyman
    Earle Hyman was an American actor best known for his role as Russell Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
  • B. Lloyd Sherr
    Lloyd Sherr is an American voice actor best known for replacing George Carlin as the voice of Fillmore in the Cars animated film franchise.
  • C. Lester Melroe
    Lester Melroe was an American inventor and entrepreneur best known for developing the compact skid-steer loader that led to the creation of the Bobcat brand.
  • D. Ralph Fine
    Ralph Fine is the namesake of Fine Hall, the mathematics building at Princeton University.
  • E. Marvin Duchow
    Marvin Duchow was a Canadian musicologist and influential professor of music at McGill University, known for his scholarship in Renaissance and Baroque music.
  • 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_69e0b4a71ebc8190b153a36c738730f4 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6790d9e5881908bde7da9e5e541a0 completed April 20, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087b139a98819090eb35b7e2287531 completed May 16, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088014c30c8190937586dc3f23862e completed May 16, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08810e37c08190bd7e8b584204064c completed May 16, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:28 a.m.