Triple

T11994682
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Nutty Professor E285498 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Norman Alden
Norman Alden was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s onward, including roles in movies like "The Nutty Professor" and voice work such as Aquaman in the "Super Friends" animated series.
E958710 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: Norman Alden | Statement: [The Nutty Professor, starring, Norman Alden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Alden
Context triple: [The Nutty Professor, starring, Norman Alden]
  • A. Jamie Delano
    Jamie Delano is a British comic book writer best known for his influential work on DC’s Vertigo imprint, particularly as one of the original writers of the Hellblazer series.
  • B. George Deever
    George Deever is a pivotal character in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons," serving as a morally driven figure whose return and accusations help expose the Keller family's buried guilt and wartime wrongdoing.
  • C. Godfrey Dewey
    Godfrey Dewey was an American organizer and winter sports advocate best known for directing the planning and execution of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
  • D. David Devereaux
    David Devereaux is a minor fictional character from the television sitcom "The Golden Girls," known primarily as the son of Blanche Devereaux.
  • E. Joel Sayre
    Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
  • 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: Norman Alden
Triple: [The Nutty Professor, starring, Norman Alden]
Generated description
Norman Alden was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s onward, including roles in movies like "The Nutty Professor" and voice work such as Aquaman in the "Super Friends" animated series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Alden
Target entity description: Norman Alden was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s onward, including roles in movies like "The Nutty Professor" and voice work such as Aquaman in the "Super Friends" animated series.
  • A. Jamie Delano
    Jamie Delano is a British comic book writer best known for his influential work on DC’s Vertigo imprint, particularly as one of the original writers of the Hellblazer series.
  • B. George Deever
    George Deever is a pivotal character in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons," serving as a morally driven figure whose return and accusations help expose the Keller family's buried guilt and wartime wrongdoing.
  • C. Godfrey Dewey
    Godfrey Dewey was an American organizer and winter sports advocate best known for directing the planning and execution of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
  • D. David Devereaux
    David Devereaux is a minor fictional character from the television sitcom "The Golden Girls," known primarily as the son of Blanche Devereaux.
  • E. Joel Sayre
    Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903b211688190bfe6dd15c3f96d2f completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f47273e1088190b899071baff1375a completed May 1, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47b7d4ef081908f7f87d90c00d9ed completed May 1, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47de8c9e48190af01918c9cd94c7d completed May 1, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.