Triple

T11014075
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bert Williams E260317 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Egbert Austin Williams
Egbert Austin Williams, better known as Bert Williams, was a pioneering Bahamian-American comedian, actor, and one of the most important Black performers in early 20th-century American entertainment and vaudeville.
E900118 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: Egbert Austin Williams | Statement: [Bert Williams, fullName, Egbert Austin Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Egbert Austin Williams
Context triple: [Bert Williams, fullName, Egbert Austin Williams]
  • A. Robert Wynn Williams
    Robert Wynn Williams was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament for the Caernarvon Boroughs constituency.
  • B. George Francis Willis
    George Francis Willis was an American real estate developer and entrepreneur best known for designing and establishing the planned community of Avondale Estates, Georgia, in the early 20th century.
  • C. Ernest E. Williams
    Ernest E. Williams was a zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential research on reptiles and amphibians, particularly lizards, and for his long tenure at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  • D. William Edmonds
    William Edmonds is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Edmonds, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established from this context alone.
  • E. Louis Hobson
    Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
  • 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: Egbert Austin Williams
Triple: [Bert Williams, fullName, Egbert Austin Williams]
Generated description
Egbert Austin Williams, better known as Bert Williams, was a pioneering Bahamian-American comedian, actor, and one of the most important Black performers in early 20th-century American entertainment and vaudeville.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Egbert Austin Williams
Target entity description: Egbert Austin Williams, better known as Bert Williams, was a pioneering Bahamian-American comedian, actor, and one of the most important Black performers in early 20th-century American entertainment and vaudeville.
  • A. Robert Wynn Williams
    Robert Wynn Williams was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament for the Caernarvon Boroughs constituency.
  • B. George Francis Willis
    George Francis Willis was an American real estate developer and entrepreneur best known for designing and establishing the planned community of Avondale Estates, Georgia, in the early 20th century.
  • C. Ernest E. Williams
    Ernest E. Williams was a zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential research on reptiles and amphibians, particularly lizards, and for his long tenure at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  • D. William Edmonds
    William Edmonds is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Edmonds, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established from this context alone.
  • E. Louis Hobson
    Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
  • 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_69d6aa9687448190b28d353b1b6a610e completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d797a49f648190a5144625d09dec6f completed April 9, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e374c238ac81908e0a5eff958d6545 completed April 18, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e37ab6ca788190ac41f9494ad9a47f completed April 18, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e37c9439fc8190a69cfb1a13da4c19 completed April 18, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:25 p.m.