Triple

T14711769
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject What We Do in the Shadows E345562 entity
Predicate leadActor P1507 FINISHED
Object Mark Proksch
Mark Proksch is an American actor and comedian best known for his deadpan, awkward characters in series like What We Do in the Shadows, The Office, and Better Call Saul.
E1116233 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: Mark Proksch | Statement: [What We Do in the Shadows, leadActor, Mark Proksch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Proksch
Context triple: [What We Do in the Shadows, leadActor, Mark Proksch]
  • A. Markus J. Pflaum
    Markus J. Pflaum is a German mathematician recognized for his significant contributions to differential geometry and related fields, for which he received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize.
  • B. Christoph Menzel
    Christoph Menzel is a German physicist known for his research in nanophotonics and metamaterials.
  • C. Bastian Pastewka
    Bastian Pastewka is a German comedian and actor known for his television work, stand-up comedy, and the acclaimed sitcom "Pastewka."
  • D. Michael Umlauf
    Michael Umlauf was a 19th-century Austrian composer, violinist, and conductor best known for co-conducting the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
  • E. Michael Hecht
    Michael Hecht is the birth name of Michael Howard, a British Conservative politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Home Secretary.
  • 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: Mark Proksch
Triple: [What We Do in the Shadows, leadActor, Mark Proksch]
Generated description
Mark Proksch is an American actor and comedian best known for his deadpan, awkward characters in series like What We Do in the Shadows, The Office, and Better Call Saul.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Proksch
Target entity description: Mark Proksch is an American actor and comedian best known for his deadpan, awkward characters in series like What We Do in the Shadows, The Office, and Better Call Saul.
  • A. Markus J. Pflaum
    Markus J. Pflaum is a German mathematician recognized for his significant contributions to differential geometry and related fields, for which he received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize.
  • B. Christoph Menzel
    Christoph Menzel is a German physicist known for his research in nanophotonics and metamaterials.
  • C. Bastian Pastewka
    Bastian Pastewka is a German comedian and actor known for his television work, stand-up comedy, and the acclaimed sitcom "Pastewka."
  • D. Michael Umlauf
    Michael Umlauf was a 19th-century Austrian composer, violinist, and conductor best known for co-conducting the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
  • E. Michael Hecht
    Michael Hecht is the birth name of Michael Howard, a British Conservative politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Home Secretary.
  • 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_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb982bf248190881e21a8a0861a3f completed April 14, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdf08f2aa08190a5ac3240d1de90fb completed May 8, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdf23d4928819093630e25616abb2d completed May 8, 2026, 2:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdf31fcb4081908a88cf4d4c5ddced completed May 8, 2026, 2:28 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.