Triple

T10091160
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Man of a Thousand Faces E215346 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Jim Backus E128316 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Jim Backus | Statement: [Man of a Thousand Faces, starring, Jim Backus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Backus
Context triple: [Man of a Thousand Faces, starring, Jim Backus]
  • A. Jim Backus chosen
    Jim Backus was an American actor and voice artist best known for voicing the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and portraying Thurston Howell III on the television series "Gilligan's Island."
  • B. Charles Gleason
    Charles Gleason is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various professionals and public figures, rather than a single widely recognized person.
  • C. Fred Gwynne
    Fred Gwynne was an American actor and illustrator best known for his comedic television roles, particularly as Herman Munster on the 1960s sitcom "The Munsters."
  • D. Buddy Hackett
    Buddy Hackett was an American comedian and actor known for his distinctive voice, rubber-faced expressions, and roles in films like "The Music Man" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
  • E. Jonathan Winters
    Jonathan Winters was an influential American comedian and actor renowned for his improvisational genius, character work, and pioneering impact on modern stand-up and sketch comedy.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca83a1eed081908b2e9580f2ebeea7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd05aa02081908fba02e7085c6d7c completed April 2, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d3174109988190b703bb5b7c89c5c2 completed April 6, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:01 p.m.