Triple

T21067867
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sneetches and Other Stories E519022 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Sylvester McMonkey McBean
Sylvester McMonkey McBean is a shrewd, opportunistic salesman from Dr. Seuss’s “The Sneetches,” who exploits the Sneetches’ prejudice for profit.
E1464933 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: Sylvester McMonkey McBean | Statement: [The Sneetches and Other Stories, notableCharacter, Sylvester McMonkey McBean]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester McMonkey McBean
Context triple: [The Sneetches and Other Stories, notableCharacter, Sylvester McMonkey McBean]
  • A. Pogo Poole
    Pogo Poole is the charming, witty, and free-spirited protagonist of the play and film "The Pleasure of His Company," known for disrupting his daughter's orderly life when he reenters her world.
  • B. Mortdecai
    Mortdecai is a 2015 action-comedy film starring Johnny Depp as an eccentric art dealer entangled in a global hunt for a stolen painting.
  • C. Cecil Dreeme
    Cecil Dreeme is a 19th-century American novel by Theodore Winthrop, noted for its Gothic elements and early exploration of gender and identity themes.
  • D. Muttley
    Muttley is a cartoon dog best known as Dick Dastardly’s snickering sidekick in Hanna-Barbera’s slapstick racing and aviation-themed series.
  • E. Fizbo the Clown
    Fizbo the Clown is the flamboyant clown persona and comedic alter ego of Cameron Tucker from the television series "Modern Family."
  • 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: Sylvester McMonkey McBean
Triple: [The Sneetches and Other Stories, notableCharacter, Sylvester McMonkey McBean]
Generated description
Sylvester McMonkey McBean is a shrewd, opportunistic salesman from Dr. Seuss’s “The Sneetches,” who exploits the Sneetches’ prejudice for profit.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester McMonkey McBean
Target entity description: Sylvester McMonkey McBean is a shrewd, opportunistic salesman from Dr. Seuss’s “The Sneetches,” who exploits the Sneetches’ prejudice for profit.
  • A. Pogo Poole
    Pogo Poole is the charming, witty, and free-spirited protagonist of the play and film "The Pleasure of His Company," known for disrupting his daughter's orderly life when he reenters her world.
  • B. Mortdecai
    Mortdecai is a 2015 action-comedy film starring Johnny Depp as an eccentric art dealer entangled in a global hunt for a stolen painting.
  • C. Cecil Dreeme
    Cecil Dreeme is a 19th-century American novel by Theodore Winthrop, noted for its Gothic elements and early exploration of gender and identity themes.
  • D. Muttley
    Muttley is a cartoon dog best known as Dick Dastardly’s snickering sidekick in Hanna-Barbera’s slapstick racing and aviation-themed series.
  • E. Fizbo the Clown
    Fizbo the Clown is the flamboyant clown persona and comedic alter ego of Cameron Tucker from the television series "Modern Family."
  • 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_69e0b505ef108190b25dd4033e2ff7eb completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6feb5772481909e32af3b3a69df76 completed April 21, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09507392e4819088f52cde6c940b6d completed May 17, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0952ec874081908ef381ebb49e230c completed May 17, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09535799cc81908c78b99762c0b1a0 completed May 17, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:45 p.m.