Triple

T12224798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McHale's Navy E291321 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
Captain Wallace B. Binghamton is the bumbling, irritable, and often exasperated commanding officer and comic foil in the 1960s World War II sitcom "McHale's Navy."
 E972722 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 Wallace B. Binghamton | Statement: [McHale's Navy, mainCharacter, Captain Wallace B. Binghamton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
Context triple: [McHale's Navy, mainCharacter, Captain Wallace B. Binghamton]
  • A. Captain Benjamin L. Willard
    Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
  • B. Captain Frederick C. Bock
    Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  • C. Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding
    Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding is the fast-talking, wisecracking Groucho Marx character who serves as the central comedic figure in the Marx Brothers film "Animal Crackers."
  • D. Captain Thomas L. Roberts
    Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
  • E. Commandant William Ward Burrows
    Commandant William Ward Burrows was the second Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, noted for shaping the early Corps’ organization and establishing key institutions in its formative years.
  • 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 Wallace B. Binghamton
Triple: [McHale's Navy, mainCharacter, Captain Wallace B. Binghamton]
Generated description
Captain Wallace B. Binghamton is the bumbling, irritable, and often exasperated commanding officer and comic foil in the 1960s World War II sitcom "McHale's Navy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain Wallace B. Binghamton
Target entity description: Captain Wallace B. Binghamton is the bumbling, irritable, and often exasperated commanding officer and comic foil in the 1960s World War II sitcom "McHale's Navy."
  • A. Captain Benjamin L. Willard
    Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
  • B. Captain Frederick C. Bock
    Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  • C. Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding
    Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding is the fast-talking, wisecracking Groucho Marx character who serves as the central comedic figure in the Marx Brothers film "Animal Crackers."
  • D. Captain Thomas L. Roberts
    Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
  • E. Commandant William Ward Burrows
    Commandant William Ward Burrows was the second Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, noted for shaping the early Corps’ organization and establishing key institutions in its formative years.
  • 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_69d6ab668acc8190963ba424049d6aee completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91ca11f788190bad2efb6c83ffccb completed April 10, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60aa9023881909f8373e02d2cad4b completed May 2, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61a13fd1481908a06ca65b276e0e1 completed May 2, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f61ad2bd0c8190ada37bc1f8ae160f completed May 2, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.