Triple

T15393290
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Rumor of War E368102 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object David Huffman
David Huffman was an American film and television actor known for roles in projects such as the Vietnam War drama "A Rumor of War" before his career was cut short by his tragic death in 1985.
E1155433 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: David Huffman | Statement: [A Rumor of War, castMember, David Huffman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Huffman
Context triple: [A Rumor of War, castMember, David Huffman]
  • A. Robert M. Fano
    Robert M. Fano was an influential Italian-American computer scientist and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to coding theory and for co-developing Shannon–Fano coding.
  • B. Richard W. Hamming
    Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
  • C. Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
  • D. Zellig Harris
    Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
  • E. George K. Zipf
    George K. Zipf was an American linguist and philologist best known for formulating Zipf's law, which describes the frequency distribution of words in natural language and has broad applications across linguistics, information science, and other fields.
  • 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: David Huffman
Triple: [A Rumor of War, castMember, David Huffman]
Generated description
David Huffman was an American film and television actor known for roles in projects such as the Vietnam War drama "A Rumor of War" before his career was cut short by his tragic death in 1985.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Huffman
Target entity description: David Huffman was an American film and television actor known for roles in projects such as the Vietnam War drama "A Rumor of War" before his career was cut short by his tragic death in 1985.
  • A. Robert M. Fano
    Robert M. Fano was an influential Italian-American computer scientist and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to coding theory and for co-developing Shannon–Fano coding.
  • B. Richard W. Hamming
    Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
  • C. Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
  • D. Zellig Harris
    Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
  • E. George K. Zipf
    George K. Zipf was an American linguist and philologist best known for formulating Zipf's law, which describes the frequency distribution of words in natural language and has broad applications across linguistics, information science, and other fields.
  • 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_69d85a1551a08190ba2caea7cd51c639 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03e7838b48190862b43c6c8620692 completed April 16, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff1350699c8190acf7830d88455851 completed May 9, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff17c6837c8190a2b6fa1ac9c3de01 completed May 9, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff184d63e88190906689e14cfc8933 completed May 9, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:19 a.m.