Triple

T1046400
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Harvey Girls E22588 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Virginia O'Brien
Virginia O'Brien was an American film actress and singer best known for her deadpan comedic style and musical performances in MGM musicals of the 1940s.
E243616 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: Virginia O'Brien | Statement: [The Harvey Girls, starring, Virginia O'Brien]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia O'Brien
Context triple: [The Harvey Girls, starring, Virginia O'Brien]
  • A. Karen O’Brien
    Karen O’Brien is a British academic and university leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, overseeing its strategic direction and academic mission.
  • B. Loretta Devine
    Loretta Devine is an American actress known for her warm, soulful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "Waiting to Exhale" and the TV series "Grey's Anatomy."
  • C. Maeve Cooke
    Maeve Cooke is an Irish philosopher known for her work in critical social theory, democratic theory, and the philosophy of language, often engaging with and developing themes from contemporary German philosophy.
  • D. Helen O’Connell
    Helen O’Connell was a popular American big band singer and entertainer best known for her work with Jimmy Dorsey’s orchestra in the 1940s.
  • E. Marjorie Bowes
    Marjorie Bowes was the English wife of Scottish Reformation leader John Knox, known primarily through her marriage into the prominent Protestant reformer’s life and circle.
  • 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: Virginia O'Brien
Triple: [The Harvey Girls, starring, Virginia O'Brien]
Generated description
Virginia O'Brien was an American film actress and singer best known for her deadpan comedic style and musical performances in MGM musicals of the 1940s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia O'Brien
Target entity description: Virginia O'Brien was an American film actress and singer best known for her deadpan comedic style and musical performances in MGM musicals of the 1940s.
  • A. Karen O’Brien
    Karen O’Brien is a British academic and university leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, overseeing its strategic direction and academic mission.
  • B. Loretta Devine
    Loretta Devine is an American actress known for her warm, soulful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "Waiting to Exhale" and the TV series "Grey's Anatomy."
  • C. Maeve Cooke
    Maeve Cooke is an Irish philosopher known for her work in critical social theory, democratic theory, and the philosophy of language, often engaging with and developing themes from contemporary German philosophy.
  • D. Helen O’Connell
    Helen O’Connell was a popular American big band singer and entertainer best known for her work with Jimmy Dorsey’s orchestra in the 1940s.
  • E. Marjorie Bowes
    Marjorie Bowes was the English wife of Scottish Reformation leader John Knox, known primarily through her marriage into the prominent Protestant reformer’s life and circle.
  • 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_69a493d91478819094cc01fb65564bc1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b84bb0048190badf6d2f7f684d99 completed March 1, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae650fa53c8190a6db9d10c97f9850 completed March 9, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae65bfafec8190adf80379cd5b34f3 completed March 9, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6622b0688190bf90fa04780bbf80 completed March 9, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.