Triple

T20661455
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Needful Things E507768 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Nettie Cobb
Nettie Cobb is a troubled Castle Rock resident whose escalating conflict and tragic fate play a key role in the events of Stephen King’s novel "Needful Things."
E1447602 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: Nettie Cobb | Statement: [Needful Things, hasCharacter, Nettie Cobb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nettie Cobb
Context triple: [Needful Things, hasCharacter, Nettie Cobb]
  • A. Nettie Harris
    Nettie Harris is a central character in Alice Walker’s novel "The Color Purple," known as Celie’s beloved younger sister whose letters reveal her life, resilience, and experiences abroad.
  • B. Otelia Cox
    Otelia Cox is the wife of American actor Tony Cox, known for his roles in films such as "Bad Santa" and "Me, Myself & Irene."
  • C. Creola Katherine Coleman
    Creola Katherine Coleman, better known as Katherine Johnson, was an African American mathematician whose orbital mechanics calculations were critical to the success of early U.S. crewed spaceflights at NASA.
  • D. Fannie N. Smith
    Fannie N. Smith was the first wife of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington, with whom she shared the early years of his rise to prominence.
  • E. Mabel Thompson
    Mabel Thompson is the first wife of Atlantic City political boss Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in the television series "Boardwalk Empire."
  • 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: Nettie Cobb
Triple: [Needful Things, hasCharacter, Nettie Cobb]
Generated description
Nettie Cobb is a troubled Castle Rock resident whose escalating conflict and tragic fate play a key role in the events of Stephen King’s novel "Needful Things."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nettie Cobb
Target entity description: Nettie Cobb is a troubled Castle Rock resident whose escalating conflict and tragic fate play a key role in the events of Stephen King’s novel "Needful Things."
  • A. Nettie Harris
    Nettie Harris is a central character in Alice Walker’s novel "The Color Purple," known as Celie’s beloved younger sister whose letters reveal her life, resilience, and experiences abroad.
  • B. Otelia Cox
    Otelia Cox is the wife of American actor Tony Cox, known for his roles in films such as "Bad Santa" and "Me, Myself & Irene."
  • C. Creola Katherine Coleman
    Creola Katherine Coleman, better known as Katherine Johnson, was an African American mathematician whose orbital mechanics calculations were critical to the success of early U.S. crewed spaceflights at NASA.
  • D. Fannie N. Smith
    Fannie N. Smith was the first wife of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington, with whom she shared the early years of his rise to prominence.
  • E. Mabel Thompson
    Mabel Thompson is the first wife of Atlantic City political boss Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in the television series "Boardwalk Empire."
  • 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_69e0b4c059bc81908ea762cd73ea4424 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6b2f2ee4081908df9ba897c9dfc98 completed April 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08e0430ea48190b0ce649e7675c965 completed May 16, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e3c71e308190a3083985274e6af5 completed May 16, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e43291f48190bd8966ac2b8df38f completed May 16, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:44 a.m.