Triple

T155687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Bodyguard E3174 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite was an American actor best known for his role as family patriarch John Walton Sr. on the television series "The Waltons."
E94406 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: Ralph Waite | Statement: [The Bodyguard, castMember, Ralph Waite]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Waite
Context triple: [The Bodyguard, castMember, Ralph Waite]
  • A. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • B. Albert D. Wheelon
    Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
  • C. Ban Johnson
    Ban Johnson was an influential early 20th-century baseball executive who played a key role in establishing the American League as a major league rival to the National League.
  • D. Wallace H. White Jr.
    Wallace H. White Jr. was an American Republican politician from Maine who served as a U.S. Senator and held the position of Senate Majority Leader in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Ralph Riggs
    Ralph Riggs was an American stage actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals, including originating a role in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Oklahoma!".
  • 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: Ralph Waite
Triple: [The Bodyguard, castMember, Ralph Waite]
Generated description
Ralph Waite was an American actor best known for his role as family patriarch John Walton Sr. on the television series "The Waltons."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Waite
Target entity description: Ralph Waite was an American actor best known for his role as family patriarch John Walton Sr. on the television series "The Waltons."
  • A. William Tilden Blodgett
    William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • B. Albert D. Wheelon
    Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
  • C. Ban Johnson
    Ban Johnson was an influential early 20th-century baseball executive who played a key role in establishing the American League as a major league rival to the National League.
  • D. Wallace H. White Jr.
    Wallace H. White Jr. was an American Republican politician from Maine who served as a U.S. Senator and held the position of Senate Majority Leader in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Ralph Riggs
    Ralph Riggs was an American stage actor best known for his work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals, including originating a role in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Oklahoma!".
  • 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_69a2527757ec819090b8becb2cf1a862 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2582eb6408190beb38213c7d7d968 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a67eec3dfc8190bacde41a21cbf219 completed March 3, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a67f6615188190ad526ba0875209a9 completed March 3, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a6808069e08190bc6df238c91d24c4 completed March 3, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.