Triple

T14414018
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject They Might Be Giants (film) E357401 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Lester Rawlins
Lester Rawlins was an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including a notable role in the 1971 mystery-comedy film "They Might Be Giants."
E1097712 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: Lester Rawlins | Statement: [They Might Be Giants (film), starring, Lester Rawlins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Rawlins
Context triple: [They Might Be Giants (film), starring, Lester Rawlins]
  • A. Garland Mosley
    Garland Mosley is an American songwriter and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with his brother, the acclaimed producer Timbaland.
  • B. Piper Dellums
    Piper Dellums is an American writer, speaker, and activist whose real-life experiences with a South African exchange student inspired the Disney Channel film "The Color of Friendship."
  • C. Leroy Hicks
    Leroy Hicks is an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as a bearer of the surname Hicks, though widely recognized public information about him is limited.
  • D. Melvin Walker
    Melvin Walker was a son of pioneering African American businesswoman and banker Maggie L. Walker.
  • E. William O’Neal
    William O’Neal was an FBI informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party and played a key role in the events leading to the assassination of Illinois chapter chairman Fred Hampton.
  • 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: Lester Rawlins
Triple: [They Might Be Giants (film), starring, Lester Rawlins]
Generated description
Lester Rawlins was an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including a notable role in the 1971 mystery-comedy film "They Might Be Giants."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Rawlins
Target entity description: Lester Rawlins was an American character actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including a notable role in the 1971 mystery-comedy film "They Might Be Giants."
  • A. Garland Mosley
    Garland Mosley is an American songwriter and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with his brother, the acclaimed producer Timbaland.
  • B. Piper Dellums
    Piper Dellums is an American writer, speaker, and activist whose real-life experiences with a South African exchange student inspired the Disney Channel film "The Color of Friendship."
  • C. Leroy Hicks
    Leroy Hicks is an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as a bearer of the surname Hicks, though widely recognized public information about him is limited.
  • D. Melvin Walker
    Melvin Walker was a son of pioneering African American businesswoman and banker Maggie L. Walker.
  • E. William O’Neal
    William O’Neal was an FBI informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party and played a key role in the events leading to the assassination of Illinois chapter chairman Fred Hampton.
  • 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_69d82793421c8190861eb0e673b085de completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de90cb3c708190822f5506ebf7ee9d completed April 14, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd552858208190ba1550e7c1176a2a completed May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd5671e4688190ab1b7a7ed6c0cfb8 completed May 8, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd57710f648190a1344ac1363acce1 completed May 8, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:17 a.m.