Triple

T13564165
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Erik Blake E323988 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Reed Birney
Reed Birney is an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including a Tony Award-winning performance in "The Humans."
E1061554 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: Reed Birney | Statement: [Erik Blake, portrayedBy, Reed Birney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reed Birney
Context triple: [Erik Blake, portrayedBy, Reed Birney]
  • A. Stanley Hoffman
    Stanley Hoffman is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Hoffman.
  • B. Brock Peters
    Brock Peters was an American actor renowned for his powerful performances in films such as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Star Trek," as well as his distinctive deep voice in voice-over work.
  • C. Martin Balsam
    Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
  • D. Hal Holbrook
    Hal Holbrook was an American actor renowned for his Emmy- and Tony-winning career in film, television, and theater, particularly for his acclaimed portrayal of Mark Twain in his long-running one-man show.
  • E. John Houseman
    John Houseman was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer best known for co-founding the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and for his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
  • 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: Reed Birney
Triple: [Erik Blake, portrayedBy, Reed Birney]
Generated description
Reed Birney is an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including a Tony Award-winning performance in "The Humans."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reed Birney
Target entity description: Reed Birney is an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including a Tony Award-winning performance in "The Humans."
  • A. Stanley Hoffman
    Stanley Hoffman is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Hoffman.
  • B. Brock Peters
    Brock Peters was an American actor renowned for his powerful performances in films such as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Star Trek," as well as his distinctive deep voice in voice-over work.
  • C. Martin Balsam
    Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
  • D. Hal Holbrook
    Hal Holbrook was an American actor renowned for his Emmy- and Tony-winning career in film, television, and theater, particularly for his acclaimed portrayal of Mark Twain in his long-running one-man show.
  • E. John Houseman
    John Houseman was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer best known for co-founding the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and for his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
  • 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_69d8076830b48190910a902bae5888e2 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb00bbe848190bb33efe2af528295 completed April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b05c844c8190bb4b72d2400a6355 completed May 3, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b138158c8190957d43d529c37fa4 completed May 3, 2026, 8:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7b1e0ab948190a046a68aa5e029a6 completed May 3, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:47 p.m.