Triple

T21652699
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith E534377 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Hannibal
Hannibal is the cigar-chomping, disguise-loving leader of the A-Team in the 1980s American television series of the same name.
 E1495445 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: Hannibal | Statement: [Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, nickname, Hannibal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hannibal
Context triple: [Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, nickname, Hannibal]
  • A. Hannibal
    Hannibal is a historic Mississippi River town in Missouri best known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the setting for many of his classic works.
  • B. Hannibal
    Hannibal is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris that continues the story of FBI agent Clarice Starling and the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
  • C. Hannibal
    Hannibal is a character in the play "The Curious Savage," known as one of the eccentric residents of a sanatorium whose quirks highlight themes of sanity, kindness, and societal values.
  • D. C. Hannibal
    C. Hannibal is a songwriter known for contributing to the R&B track "Before I Let You Go."
  • E. Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
    Hannibal was a renowned Carthaginian military commander of the Second Punic War, best known for leading his army, including war elephants, across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic.
  • 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: Hannibal
Triple: [Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith, nickname, Hannibal]
Generated description
Hannibal is the cigar-chomping, disguise-loving leader of the A-Team in the 1980s American television series of the same name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hannibal
Target entity description: Hannibal is the cigar-chomping, disguise-loving leader of the A-Team in the 1980s American television series of the same name.
  • A. Hannibal
    Hannibal is a historic Mississippi River town in Missouri best known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain and the setting for many of his classic works.
  • B. Hannibal
    Hannibal is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris that continues the story of FBI agent Clarice Starling and the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
  • C. Hannibal
    Hannibal is a character in the play "The Curious Savage," known as one of the eccentric residents of a sanatorium whose quirks highlight themes of sanity, kindness, and societal values.
  • D. C. Hannibal
    C. Hannibal is a songwriter known for contributing to the R&B track "Before I Let You Go."
  • E. Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
    Hannibal was a renowned Carthaginian military commander of the Second Punic War, best known for leading his army, including war elephants, across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic.
  • 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_69e0c466aec88190ba39c7543dbc8ba2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef591594a08190bf0ddd0a0c0922ba completed April 27, 2026, 12:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a15960e348190b944ee34d80cd8a8 completed May 17, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a16c278188190855335930666cede completed May 17, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a17a2c81481908e229ea58e61843e completed May 17, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:36 p.m.