Triple

T20391894
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lieutenant E498104 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice
Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice is a fictional military officer who serves as the central protagonist known as “The Lieutenant.”
E1427866 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: Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice | Statement: [The Lieutenant, mainCharacter, Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice
Context triple: [The Lieutenant, mainCharacter, Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice]
  • A. First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
    First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
  • B. Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
    Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • C. 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman
    2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot and one of the first American airmen killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
  • D. Corporal Frank S. Scott
    Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
  • E. Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau
    Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau was a Chinese American World War II aviator in the U.S. Army Air Forces who became a symbol of Asian American military service and sacrifice.
  • 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: Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice
Triple: [The Lieutenant, mainCharacter, Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice]
Generated description
Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice is a fictional military officer who serves as the central protagonist known as “The Lieutenant.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice
Target entity description: Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice is a fictional military officer who serves as the central protagonist known as “The Lieutenant.”
  • A. First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
    First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
  • B. Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
    Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • C. 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman
    2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot and one of the first American airmen killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
  • D. Corporal Frank S. Scott
    Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
  • E. Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau
    Second Lieutenant Benjamin Ralph Kimlau was a Chinese American World War II aviator in the U.S. Army Air Forces who became a symbol of Asian American military service and sacrifice.
  • 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_69e679108b1481909677cf80e8e77e76 completed April 20, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087624308c819095fbdddf56d86e7b completed May 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0877441fc88190a6308238638eb6d3 completed May 16, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0877eba3f88190a8e3752a1299404e completed May 16, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:28 a.m.