Triple

T10525535
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan North E248293 entity
Predicate playedCharacter P1507 FINISHED
Object Captain Ed Hocken
Captain Ed Hocken is a bumbling police officer character from the parody film "Police Squad!" and the original "The Naked Gun" movie, known for his deadpan involvement in absurd crime investigations.
E869371 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: Captain Ed Hocken | Statement: [Alan North, playedCharacter, Captain Ed Hocken]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Ed Hocken
Context triple: [Alan North, playedCharacter, Captain Ed Hocken]
  • A. Captain Richard Pearson
    Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Captain William Diel
    Captain William Diel is a supporting character in the Rush Hour film series, serving as a gruff but well-meaning Los Angeles Police Department superior to Detective James Carter.
  • C. Captain Ed Mercer
    Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • D. Captain Nicholls
    Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • E. Captain Frank McNeil
    Captain Frank McNeil is a fictional New York City police captain from the television series "Kojak," known as the superior and colleague of the title character.
  • 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: Captain Ed Hocken
Triple: [Alan North, playedCharacter, Captain Ed Hocken]
Generated description
Captain Ed Hocken is a bumbling police officer character from the parody film "Police Squad!" and the original "The Naked Gun" movie, known for his deadpan involvement in absurd crime investigations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Ed Hocken
Target entity description: Captain Ed Hocken is a bumbling police officer character from the parody film "Police Squad!" and the original "The Naked Gun" movie, known for his deadpan involvement in absurd crime investigations.
  • A. Captain Richard Pearson
    Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Captain William Diel
    Captain William Diel is a supporting character in the Rush Hour film series, serving as a gruff but well-meaning Los Angeles Police Department superior to Detective James Carter.
  • C. Captain Ed Mercer
    Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • D. Captain Nicholls
    Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • E. Captain Frank McNeil
    Captain Frank McNeil is a fictional New York City police captain from the television series "Kojak," known as the superior and colleague of the title character.
  • 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_69d381c5c7448190bec34bee7ec72bac completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d509f4bbe88190bce7789a56c85671 completed April 7, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d90e26c4908190b77d73c11bee6119 completed April 10, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d9107e8b94819086ebba1675a0db54 completed April 10, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d911a16b1481909197b00c30de48c4 completed April 10, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:29 p.m.