Triple

T14691102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cold Case E345033 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object John Finn
John Finn is an American actor best known for his role as Lieutenant John Stillman on the television crime drama series "Cold Case."
 E1114308 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: John Finn | Statement: [Cold Case, portrayedBy, John Finn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Finn
Context triple: [Cold Case, portrayedBy, John Finn]
  • A. John McFarland
    John McFarland is a central student character in Gus Van Sant’s 2003 drama film "Elephant," which portrays an ordinary day at an American high school leading up to a tragic shooting.
  • B. Christopher Ross
    Christopher Ross is a British cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on films such as "Yesterday" and other contemporary feature productions.
  • C. John Curran
    John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "Chappaquiddick," "We Don't Live Here Anymore," and "The Painted Veil."
  • D. Daniel McDermott
    Daniel McDermott is a person notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname McDermott.
  • E. Jack Pulman
    Jack Pulman was a British screenwriter best known for his acclaimed television adaptations of literary works, particularly historical dramas.
  • 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: John Finn
Triple: [Cold Case, portrayedBy, John Finn]
Generated description
John Finn is an American actor best known for his role as Lieutenant John Stillman on the television crime drama series "Cold Case."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Finn
Target entity description: John Finn is an American actor best known for his role as Lieutenant John Stillman on the television crime drama series "Cold Case."
  • A. John McFarland
    John McFarland is a central student character in Gus Van Sant’s 2003 drama film "Elephant," which portrays an ordinary day at an American high school leading up to a tragic shooting.
  • B. Christopher Ross
    Christopher Ross is a British cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on films such as "Yesterday" and other contemporary feature productions.
  • C. John Curran
    John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "Chappaquiddick," "We Don't Live Here Anymore," and "The Painted Veil."
  • D. Daniel McDermott
    Daniel McDermott is a person notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname McDermott.
  • E. Jack Pulman
    Jack Pulman was a British screenwriter best known for his acclaimed television adaptations of literary works, particularly historical dramas.
  • 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_69d822e34b348190ada4d1cdb6c7c226 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb585d46c81908d6964130914cec4 completed April 14, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fde189771c81909289b8b044e32547 completed May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fde5fd6854819083957f2c653eb8b6 completed May 8, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fde6ffc27881909427d24560011cdf completed May 8, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.