Triple

T13236289
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ice Station Zebra E315153 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Ron Masak
Ron Masak was an American character actor best known for his recurring role as Sheriff Mort Metzger on the television series "Murder, She Wrote."
E1037352 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: Ron Masak | Statement: [Ice Station Zebra, castMember, Ron Masak]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ron Masak
Context triple: [Ice Station Zebra, castMember, Ron Masak]
  • A. Matt Kaufmann
    Matt Kaufmann is a computer scientist best known for his work on automated theorem proving and the ACL2 theorem prover, often in collaboration with J Strother Moore.
  • B. Martin Hurson
    Martin Hurson was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes.
  • C. Glenn Shadix
    Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
  • D. Cliff Martinez
    Cliff Martinez is an American film composer and former drummer known for his atmospheric, minimalist scores for directors like Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn.
  • E. John Matsen
    John Matsen is a physician and medical laboratory leader best known as a co-founder of ARUP Laboratories, a major national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory.
  • 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: Ron Masak
Triple: [Ice Station Zebra, castMember, Ron Masak]
Generated description
Ron Masak was an American character actor best known for his recurring role as Sheriff Mort Metzger on the television series "Murder, She Wrote."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ron Masak
Target entity description: Ron Masak was an American character actor best known for his recurring role as Sheriff Mort Metzger on the television series "Murder, She Wrote."
  • A. Matt Kaufmann
    Matt Kaufmann is a computer scientist best known for his work on automated theorem proving and the ACL2 theorem prover, often in collaboration with J Strother Moore.
  • B. Martin Hurson
    Martin Hurson was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison during the 1981 Irish hunger strikes.
  • C. Glenn Shadix
    Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
  • D. Cliff Martinez
    Cliff Martinez is an American film composer and former drummer known for his atmospheric, minimalist scores for directors like Steven Soderbergh and Nicolas Winding Refn.
  • E. John Matsen
    John Matsen is a physician and medical laboratory leader best known as a co-founder of ARUP Laboratories, a major national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory.
  • 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_69d806b1072881909e46bd212259c5f0 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98d56da008190af55da3a9e7ffd4d completed April 10, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f72664b9a48190a76e0c3dfaaf3d7a completed May 3, 2026, 10:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f72a6fdf7c8190a2345e6771228968 completed May 3, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f72ac6b4688190a2052a44b445b14b completed May 3, 2026, 11 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:22 p.m.