Triple

T22973919
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Broken City E571260 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Hostetler
Nicholas Hostetler is a powerful and morally corrupt New York City mayor in the neo-noir crime film "Broken City."
 E1564119 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: Nicholas Hostetler | Statement: [Broken City, character, Nicholas Hostetler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicholas Hostetler
Context triple: [Broken City, character, Nicholas Hostetler]
  • A. Nicholas Peterson
    Nicholas Peterson is a musician best known for his past role as a member of the indie folk band Fleet Foxes.
  • B. Nicholas Peterson
    Nicholas Peterson is the central father figure and protagonist of the 1990s American sitcom "The Parent 'Hood," around whom the show's family-centered stories revolve.
  • C. Nicholas Peterson
    Nicholas Peterson is an individual known primarily as a relative of Zaria Peterson.
  • D. Nicholas G. Gage
    Nicholas G. Gage is a Greek-American author and investigative journalist best known for his memoir "Eleni," which recounts his mother's execution during the Greek Civil War and his quest to uncover the truth behind it.
  • E. Nicholas Knisely
    Nicholas Knisely is an American Episcopal bishop and former physicist who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island.
  • 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: Nicholas Hostetler
Triple: [Broken City, character, Nicholas Hostetler]
Generated description
Nicholas Hostetler is a powerful and morally corrupt New York City mayor in the neo-noir crime film "Broken City."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicholas Hostetler
Target entity description: Nicholas Hostetler is a powerful and morally corrupt New York City mayor in the neo-noir crime film "Broken City."
  • A. Nicholas Peterson
    Nicholas Peterson is the central father figure and protagonist of the 1990s American sitcom "The Parent 'Hood," around whom the show's family-centered stories revolve.
  • B. Nicholas Peterson
    Nicholas Peterson is a musician best known for his past role as a member of the indie folk band Fleet Foxes.
  • C. Nicholas Peterson
    Nicholas Peterson is an individual known primarily as a relative of Zaria Peterson.
  • D. Nicholas G. Gage
    Nicholas G. Gage is a Greek-American author and investigative journalist best known for his memoir "Eleni," which recounts his mother's execution during the Greek Civil War and his quest to uncover the truth behind it.
  • E. Nicholas Knisely
    Nicholas Knisely is an American Episcopal bishop and former physicist who serves as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island.
  • 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_69e245b2c6548190a0e4c7f2f7df2d48 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f182350b448190a34e5fa0167fd964 completed April 29, 2026, 3:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bca2a23a4819084b0515313dbd2e8 completed May 19, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bccfc76ec8190bf03fb580f4a5b50 completed May 19, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bcd615d9081908b30ad2f2efcf4ea completed May 19, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:48 p.m.