Triple

T12424770
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pennies from Heaven E296868 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Vernel Bagneris
Vernel Bagneris is an American actor, playwright, and director best known for his work in theater and film, particularly in jazz- and blues-themed productions.
 E981595 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: Vernel Bagneris | Statement: [Pennies from Heaven, starredActor, Vernel Bagneris]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vernel Bagneris
Context triple: [Pennies from Heaven, starredActor, Vernel Bagneris]
  • A. Norbert Brodine
    Norbert Brodine was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the mid-20th century, particularly in film noir and crime dramas.
  • B. John Bagni
    John Bagni was an American actor and screenwriter active in mid-20th-century film and radio.
  • C. Marvin Natiss
    Marvin Natiss is an American local politician who has served as a leading municipal official in North Hills, New York.
  • D. Ralph Kabnis
    Ralph Kabnis is the troubled, introspective schoolteacher protagonist of Jean Toomer’s Cane, whose experiences in the Jim Crow South explore themes of racial identity, alienation, and spiritual crisis.
  • E. Berko Gleason
    Berko Gleason is an American psycholinguist best known for her pioneering "wug test," which demonstrated how children acquire morphological rules in language.
  • 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: Vernel Bagneris
Triple: [Pennies from Heaven, starredActor, Vernel Bagneris]
Generated description
Vernel Bagneris is an American actor, playwright, and director best known for his work in theater and film, particularly in jazz- and blues-themed productions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vernel Bagneris
Target entity description: Vernel Bagneris is an American actor, playwright, and director best known for his work in theater and film, particularly in jazz- and blues-themed productions.
  • A. Norbert Brodine
    Norbert Brodine was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the mid-20th century, particularly in film noir and crime dramas.
  • B. John Bagni
    John Bagni was an American actor and screenwriter active in mid-20th-century film and radio.
  • C. Marvin Natiss
    Marvin Natiss is an American local politician who has served as a leading municipal official in North Hills, New York.
  • D. Ralph Kabnis
    Ralph Kabnis is the troubled, introspective schoolteacher protagonist of Jean Toomer’s Cane, whose experiences in the Jim Crow South explore themes of racial identity, alienation, and spiritual crisis.
  • E. Berko Gleason
    Berko Gleason is an American psycholinguist best known for her pioneering "wug test," which demonstrated how children acquire morphological rules in language.
  • 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_69d6ada0640c81908c061d7fb3d47786 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d7b6bd08190b30beba393a5b1e7 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6349716fc8190997b54a50d29827a completed May 2, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6356ce3f4819087d1703db655cbb4 completed May 2, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f63697d5b8819094728df472eb1914 completed May 2, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.