Triple

T23052957
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Clennon E574070 entity
Predicate notableRole P22 FINISHED
Object Palmer in The Thing
Palmer in The Thing is a crew member of the Antarctic research station who becomes one of the secretly assimilated, shape-shifting alien impostors in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film.
E1568580 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: Palmer in The Thing | Statement: [David Clennon, notableRole, Palmer in The Thing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Palmer in The Thing
Context triple: [David Clennon, notableRole, Palmer in The Thing]
  • A. R.J. MacReady
    R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
  • B. Ben Ripley
    Ben Ripley is a fictional character best known as the awkward but resourceful middle-school spy-in-training protagonist of Stuart Gibbs’s “Spy School” book series.
  • C. Jeremiah Denton
    Jeremiah Denton was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Vietnam War pilot who became famous for enduring years of torture as a prisoner of war and later serving as a U.S. senator from Alabama.
  • D. Joe Denton
    Joe Denton is the disgraced ex-cop protagonist of the crime novel and film "Small Crimes," whose attempts at redemption spiral into deeper violence and corruption.
  • E. Dr. Scott
    Dr. Scott is a supporting character in the 2021 science fiction drama film "Swan Song," involved in the ethical and emotional dilemmas surrounding human cloning and end-of-life decisions.
  • 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: Palmer in The Thing
Triple: [David Clennon, notableRole, Palmer in The Thing]
Generated description
Palmer in The Thing is a crew member of the Antarctic research station who becomes one of the secretly assimilated, shape-shifting alien impostors in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Palmer in The Thing
Target entity description: Palmer in The Thing is a crew member of the Antarctic research station who becomes one of the secretly assimilated, shape-shifting alien impostors in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film.
  • A. R.J. MacReady
    R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
  • B. Ben Ripley
    Ben Ripley is a fictional character best known as the awkward but resourceful middle-school spy-in-training protagonist of Stuart Gibbs’s “Spy School” book series.
  • C. Jeremiah Denton
    Jeremiah Denton was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Vietnam War pilot who became famous for enduring years of torture as a prisoner of war and later serving as a U.S. senator from Alabama.
  • D. Joe Denton
    Joe Denton is the disgraced ex-cop protagonist of the crime novel and film "Small Crimes," whose attempts at redemption spiral into deeper violence and corruption.
  • E. Dr. Scott
    Dr. Scott is a supporting character in the 2021 science fiction drama film "Swan Song," involved in the ethical and emotional dilemmas surrounding human cloning and end-of-life decisions.
  • 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_69e245ba7ae48190be606dbc54120e39 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1867dfac48190bf300f85d2907854 completed April 29, 2026, 4:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c0ae036908190a6cdcb74e0d28f82 completed May 19, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c0e2dd7908190afa879304ef3ed17 completed May 19, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c0eaa7f8c81908110341d34d92537 completed May 19, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:54 p.m.