Triple

T13309753
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Johnny Eager E317028 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Robert Sterling
Robert Sterling was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1940s Hollywood movies and the TV series "Topper."
E1032161 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: Robert Sterling | Statement: [Johnny Eager, starring, Robert Sterling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Sterling
Context triple: [Johnny Eager, starring, Robert Sterling]
  • A. Robert Sterling Yard
    Robert Sterling Yard was an American conservationist and writer who played a key role in the early 20th-century movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States.
  • B. Lewis Stevenson
    Lewis Stevenson was an American politician and public servant from Illinois, known as a prominent member of the influential Stevenson political family.
  • C. Robert Pike
    Robert Pike was the husband of pioneering American screenwriter and director Frances Marion, one of early Hollywood’s most celebrated film writers.
  • D. Leo Hunt
    Leo Hunt is a fictional child character in the television series "Grey's Anatomy," known as the son of trauma surgeon Owen Hunt.
  • E. Ross Marquand
    Ross Marquand is an American actor and impressionist best known for his roles on "The Walking Dead" and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • 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: Robert Sterling
Triple: [Johnny Eager, starring, Robert Sterling]
Generated description
Robert Sterling was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1940s Hollywood movies and the TV series "Topper."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Sterling
Target entity description: Robert Sterling was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1940s Hollywood movies and the TV series "Topper."
  • A. Robert Sterling Yard
    Robert Sterling Yard was an American conservationist and writer who played a key role in the early 20th-century movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States.
  • B. Lewis Stevenson
    Lewis Stevenson was an American politician and public servant from Illinois, known as a prominent member of the influential Stevenson political family.
  • C. Robert Pike
    Robert Pike was the husband of pioneering American screenwriter and director Frances Marion, one of early Hollywood’s most celebrated film writers.
  • D. Leo Hunt
    Leo Hunt is a fictional child character in the television series "Grey's Anatomy," known as the son of trauma surgeon Owen Hunt.
  • E. Ross Marquand
    Ross Marquand is an American actor and impressionist best known for his roles on "The Walking Dead" and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • 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_69d806b40ab4819094adf6c374f4811a completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d990f56abc8190951774a999e2ce11 completed April 11, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f716e58cc48190afb46e8394227ab5 completed May 3, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7179da5488190a10acadbf60ea470 completed May 3, 2026, 9:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f71847e7308190ac6f59a7dcafa452 completed May 3, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:29 p.m.