Triple

T11394133
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Once in a Lifetime (1932 film) E269921 entity
Predicate stars P1956 FINISHED
Object Russell Hopton
Russell Hopton was an American character actor of the 1920s and 1930s who appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often in supporting or tough-guy roles.
E925164 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: Russell Hopton | Statement: [Once in a Lifetime (1932 film), stars, Russell Hopton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell Hopton
Context triple: [Once in a Lifetime (1932 film), stars, Russell Hopton]
  • A. Russell Johnson
    Russell Johnson was a renowned American acoustician celebrated for designing the acoustics of major concert halls and performance venues around the world.
  • B. Russell Johnson
    Russell Johnson was an American character actor best known for playing the resourceful Professor Roy Hinkley on the classic television sitcom "Gilligan's Island."
  • C. Robert Hopton
    Robert Hopton was an English landowner and politician of the early 17th century, notable as a member of the gentry and the father of Royalist commander Ralph Hopton.
  • D. Buck Houghton
    Buck Houghton was an American television producer best known for his work on the original series of The Twilight Zone.
  • E. Russel Crouse
    Russel Crouse was an American playwright, librettist, and producer best known for co-writing the book for the musical "The Sound of Music" as part of the writing team Lindsay and Crouse.
  • 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: Russell Hopton
Triple: [Once in a Lifetime (1932 film), stars, Russell Hopton]
Generated description
Russell Hopton was an American character actor of the 1920s and 1930s who appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often in supporting or tough-guy roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell Hopton
Target entity description: Russell Hopton was an American character actor of the 1920s and 1930s who appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often in supporting or tough-guy roles.
  • A. Russell Johnson
    Russell Johnson was a renowned American acoustician celebrated for designing the acoustics of major concert halls and performance venues around the world.
  • B. Russell Johnson
    Russell Johnson was an American character actor best known for playing the resourceful Professor Roy Hinkley on the classic television sitcom "Gilligan's Island."
  • C. Robert Hopton
    Robert Hopton was an English landowner and politician of the early 17th century, notable as a member of the gentry and the father of Royalist commander Ralph Hopton.
  • D. Buck Houghton
    Buck Houghton was an American television producer best known for his work on the original series of The Twilight Zone.
  • E. Russel Crouse
    Russel Crouse was an American playwright, librettist, and producer best known for co-writing the book for the musical "The Sound of Music" as part of the writing team Lindsay and Crouse.
  • 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d80018a58c81908b80dc9abd18d650 completed April 9, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5b8250c288190b5bff70f7445b815 completed April 20, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5c289b5ac81909bdaec61a66f6654 completed April 20, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5c43f4b4c8190aeae600364d2e4ac completed April 20, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.