Triple

T12224998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sand Pebbles E291325 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Larry Gates
Larry Gates was an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, often portraying authoritative or paternal figures.
E972742 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: Larry Gates | Statement: [The Sand Pebbles, starring, Larry Gates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Larry Gates
Context triple: [The Sand Pebbles, starring, Larry Gates]
  • A. Bill Gates
    Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software pioneer, and philanthropist who co-created the Windows operating system and later co-founded one of the world’s largest charitable foundations.
  • B. Willard Gates
    Willard Gates is a scheming, morally corrupt businessman and secondary antagonist in the 1942 film noir "This Gun for Hire."
  • C. Steve Ballmer
    Steve Ballmer is an American businessman and former Microsoft CEO known for his energetic leadership style and ownership of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers.
  • D. Paul Allen
    Paul Allen was an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates.
  • E. Paul Allen
    Paul Allen is a fictional Wall Street colleague of Patrick Bateman who becomes one of his prominent murder victims in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel and the film adaptation "American Psycho."
  • 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: Larry Gates
Triple: [The Sand Pebbles, starring, Larry Gates]
Generated description
Larry Gates was an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, often portraying authoritative or paternal figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Larry Gates
Target entity description: Larry Gates was an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, often portraying authoritative or paternal figures.
  • A. Bill Gates
    Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software pioneer, and philanthropist who co-created the Windows operating system and later co-founded one of the world’s largest charitable foundations.
  • B. Willard Gates
    Willard Gates is a scheming, morally corrupt businessman and secondary antagonist in the 1942 film noir "This Gun for Hire."
  • C. Steve Ballmer
    Steve Ballmer is an American businessman and former Microsoft CEO known for his energetic leadership style and ownership of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers.
  • D. Paul Allen
    Paul Allen was an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates.
  • E. Paul Allen
    Paul Allen is a fictional Wall Street colleague of Patrick Bateman who becomes one of his prominent murder victims in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel and the film adaptation "American Psycho."
  • 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.