Triple

T12935681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Witherspoon (actor) E309499 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object J.D. Witherspoon
J.D. Witherspoon is an American actor, comedian, and YouTube personality, and the son of the late comedian and actor John Witherspoon.
 E1010528 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: J.D. Witherspoon | Statement: [John Witherspoon (actor), child, J.D. Witherspoon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: J.D. Witherspoon
Context triple: [John Witherspoon (actor), child, J.D. Witherspoon]
  • A. James McDaniel
    James McDaniel is an American actor best known for his role as Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television drama series "NYPD Blue."
  • B. Jack Welker
    Jack Welker is a ruthless white supremacist gang leader and major antagonist in the television series "Breaking Bad."
  • C. Mark Pellington
    Mark Pellington is an American film and music video director known for his visually striking, emotionally intense work on projects such as U2’s “One” and the film “Arlington Road.”
  • D. Robert Bailey Jr.
    Robert Bailey Jr. is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Emergence" and "The Night Shift," as well as films like "The Happening."
  • E. John Hemphill
    John Hemphill is an American stage actor known for performing in the U.S. national tour of the musical "The Book of Mormon," where he portrayed the character Larry Murphy.
  • 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: J.D. Witherspoon
Triple: [John Witherspoon (actor), child, J.D. Witherspoon]
Generated description
J.D. Witherspoon is an American actor, comedian, and YouTube personality, and the son of the late comedian and actor John Witherspoon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: J.D. Witherspoon
Target entity description: J.D. Witherspoon is an American actor, comedian, and YouTube personality, and the son of the late comedian and actor John Witherspoon.
  • A. James McDaniel
    James McDaniel is an American actor best known for his role as Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television drama series "NYPD Blue."
  • B. Jack Welker
    Jack Welker is a ruthless white supremacist gang leader and major antagonist in the television series "Breaking Bad."
  • C. Mark Pellington
    Mark Pellington is an American film and music video director known for his visually striking, emotionally intense work on projects such as U2’s “One” and the film “Arlington Road.”
  • D. Robert Bailey Jr.
    Robert Bailey Jr. is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Emergence" and "The Night Shift," as well as films like "The Happening."
  • E. John Hemphill
    John Hemphill is an American stage actor known for performing in the U.S. national tour of the musical "The Book of Mormon," where he portrayed the character Larry Murphy.
  • 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_69d7bdfa933c8190b5a27aa4a08a19b7 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97dc76d688190bd58a23351373666 completed April 10, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6af6d16388190abc848ac67bf1fb9 completed May 3, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b08df448819080c0a7b0921bcc9f completed May 3, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b11ced30819090f67a0b1e1369aa completed May 3, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:42 p.m.