Triple

T9732583
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Quiet American E235980 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Thomas Fowler
Thomas Fowler is a jaded British journalist in 1950s French-colonial Vietnam whose cynical worldview and moral ambiguity drive the political and romantic tensions at the heart of Graham Greene’s novel.
E818454 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: Thomas Fowler | Statement: [The Quiet American, mainCharacter, Thomas Fowler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Fowler
Context triple: [The Quiet American, mainCharacter, Thomas Fowler]
  • A. Jacob Wrey Mould
    Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • B. Benjamin Woodward
    Benjamin Woodward was a 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and his role in the firm Deane and Woodward.
  • C. Richard Southworth
    Richard Southworth is a member of the Southworth family, known primarily as a relative of Lucinda Southworth, the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
  • D. William Peachey
    William Peachey was a 19th-century British architect known for his work on major railway buildings, including the design of York railway station.
  • E. George Cooke
    George Cooke is a relatively common English personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
  • 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: Thomas Fowler
Triple: [The Quiet American, mainCharacter, Thomas Fowler]
Generated description
Thomas Fowler is a jaded British journalist in 1950s French-colonial Vietnam whose cynical worldview and moral ambiguity drive the political and romantic tensions at the heart of Graham Greene’s novel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Fowler
Target entity description: Thomas Fowler is a jaded British journalist in 1950s French-colonial Vietnam whose cynical worldview and moral ambiguity drive the political and romantic tensions at the heart of Graham Greene’s novel.
  • A. Jacob Wrey Mould
    Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • B. Benjamin Woodward
    Benjamin Woodward was a 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and his role in the firm Deane and Woodward.
  • C. Richard Southworth
    Richard Southworth is a member of the Southworth family, known primarily as a relative of Lucinda Southworth, the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
  • D. William Peachey
    William Peachey was a 19th-century British architect known for his work on major railway buildings, including the design of York railway station.
  • E. George Cooke
    George Cooke is a relatively common English personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
  • 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_69ca84d313e88190983ee6ffd0ef60d2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9eb3d6e4819090b3c7fb92550c57 completed April 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1afc4dcc4819096d29c1a0529d272 completed April 5, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1b06d39b48190adaadbc81b4ffb9a completed April 5, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1b1511c7c8190ba7bc691ab2d3a13 completed April 5, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:22 p.m.