Triple

T14843473
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Misadventures of Merlin Jones E349024 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Alan Hewitt
Alan Hewitt was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies and dramas.
E1123208 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: Alan Hewitt | Statement: [The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring, Alan Hewitt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Hewitt
Context triple: [The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring, Alan Hewitt]
  • A. Donald Shepard Hewitt
    Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
  • B. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith is an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • C. William Nobles
    William Nobles was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous early 20th-century films and serials.
  • D. Robert Leighton
    Robert Leighton is a film editor known for his work on notable movies including the baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
  • E. Thomas Graham Kahn
    Thomas Graham Kahn is a member of the Kahn family associated with renowned value investor Irving Kahn.
  • 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: Alan Hewitt
Triple: [The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring, Alan Hewitt]
Generated description
Alan Hewitt was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies and dramas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan Hewitt
Target entity description: Alan Hewitt was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies and dramas.
  • A. Donald Shepard Hewitt
    Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
  • B. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith is an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • C. William Nobles
    William Nobles was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous early 20th-century films and serials.
  • D. Robert Leighton
    Robert Leighton is a film editor known for his work on notable movies including the baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
  • E. Thomas Graham Kahn
    Thomas Graham Kahn is a member of the Kahn family associated with renowned value investor Irving Kahn.
  • 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_69d822ec69008190a9232caa68836872 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded28fa49c81908d1059e6cafd607f completed April 14, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe64fe89e88190912cd205feef85d3 completed May 8, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe660250ec819084aed06983e0df06 completed May 8, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe667bed5c81909832d09228595533 completed May 8, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:53 a.m.