Triple

T12224821
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McHale's Navy E291321 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Gary Vinson
Gary Vinson was an American actor best known for his role as Quartermaster George "Christy" Christopher on the 1960s television sitcom McHale's Navy.
E977038 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: Gary Vinson | Statement: [McHale's Navy, portrayedBy, Gary Vinson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gary Vinson
Context triple: [McHale's Navy, portrayedBy, Gary Vinson]
  • A. Gary Winick
    Gary Winick was an American film director and producer known for character-driven romantic comedies and dramas such as "13 Going on 30" and "Charlotte's Web."
  • B. Vincent Gaddis
    Vincent Gaddis was an American writer and researcher best known for coining and popularizing the modern mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Gary Grice
    Gary Grice, better known by his stage name GZA, is an American rapper, lyricist, and founding member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
  • D. Tim Vaughan
    Tim Vaughan is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the action-drama series "Strike Back."
  • E. Guy Weadick
    Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
  • 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: Gary Vinson
Triple: [McHale's Navy, portrayedBy, Gary Vinson]
Generated description
Gary Vinson was an American actor best known for his role as Quartermaster George "Christy" Christopher on the 1960s television sitcom McHale's Navy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gary Vinson
Target entity description: Gary Vinson was an American actor best known for his role as Quartermaster George "Christy" Christopher on the 1960s television sitcom McHale's Navy.
  • A. Gary Winick
    Gary Winick was an American film director and producer known for character-driven romantic comedies and dramas such as "13 Going on 30" and "Charlotte's Web."
  • B. Vincent Gaddis
    Vincent Gaddis was an American writer and researcher best known for coining and popularizing the modern mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Gary Grice
    Gary Grice, better known by his stage name GZA, is an American rapper, lyricist, and founding member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
  • D. Tim Vaughan
    Tim Vaughan is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the action-drama series "Strike Back."
  • E. Guy Weadick
    Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
  • 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_69f62a8e6ba081908428ce11196815cc completed May 2, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f62be354a88190aaf5e8439b33120b completed May 2, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f62c8194d881909db3d320a21f2052 completed May 2, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.