Triple

T20388117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Small Crimes E498009 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Joe Denton
Joe Denton is the disgraced ex-cop protagonist of the crime novel and film "Small Crimes," whose attempts at redemption spiral into deeper violence and corruption.
E1429878 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: Joe Denton | Statement: [Small Crimes, mainCharacter, Joe Denton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Denton
Context triple: [Small Crimes, mainCharacter, Joe Denton]
  • A. John Denton
    John Denton is an Australian architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall.
  • B. Charlie Gordon
    Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
  • C. Max Reede
    Max Reede is the young son whose wish causes his lawyer father to be unable to lie in the comedy film "Liar Liar."
  • D. Bill Denbrough
    Bill Denbrough is a central member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror universe, known for his leadership, stutter, and lifelong struggle against the shape-shifting entity known as It.
  • E. Dwight Hauser
    Dwight Hauser was an American screenwriter and film producer known for his work on mid-20th-century family and adventure films, including several Disney nature and animal features.
  • 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: Joe Denton
Triple: [Small Crimes, mainCharacter, Joe Denton]
Generated description
Joe Denton is the disgraced ex-cop protagonist of the crime novel and film "Small Crimes," whose attempts at redemption spiral into deeper violence and corruption.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joe Denton
Target entity description: Joe Denton is the disgraced ex-cop protagonist of the crime novel and film "Small Crimes," whose attempts at redemption spiral into deeper violence and corruption.
  • A. John Denton
    John Denton is an Australian architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall.
  • B. Charlie Gordon
    Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
  • C. Max Reede
    Max Reede is the young son whose wish causes his lawyer father to be unable to lie in the comedy film "Liar Liar."
  • D. Bill Denbrough
    Bill Denbrough is a central member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror universe, known for his leadership, stutter, and lifelong struggle against the shape-shifting entity known as It.
  • E. Dwight Hauser
    Dwight Hauser was an American screenwriter and film producer known for his work on mid-20th-century family and adventure films, including several Disney nature and animal features.
  • 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_6a087b155598819080e5034096b4541b 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.