Triple

T15681353
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stay Puft Marshmallow Man E377583 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Bill Bryan
Bill Bryan is an American actor and puppeteer best known for physically performing the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the 1984 film "Ghostbusters."
E1171469 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: Bill Bryan | Statement: [Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, portrayedBy, Bill Bryan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Bryan
Context triple: [Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, portrayedBy, Bill Bryan]
  • A. Ben Young Mason
    Ben Young Mason is a television writer and producer best known for creating the science fiction series "Mars."
  • B. William Joel Bryan
    William Joel Bryan was a 19th-century Texas landowner and nephew of Stephen F. Austin, recognized as an early settler and community figure in the region that now includes the city of Bryan, Texas.
  • C. Tom Barnett
    Tom Barnett is an actor known for his role in the Canadian drama film "Take This Waltz."
  • D. Ben Young
    Ben Young is the son of Canadian singer-songwriter Pegi Young and her former husband, musician Neil Young.
  • E. Brian Berry
    Brian Berry is a prominent British geographer known for his influential work in urban and regional analysis and contributions to quantitative geography.
  • 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: Bill Bryan
Triple: [Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, portrayedBy, Bill Bryan]
Generated description
Bill Bryan is an American actor and puppeteer best known for physically performing the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the 1984 film "Ghostbusters."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Bryan
Target entity description: Bill Bryan is an American actor and puppeteer best known for physically performing the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the 1984 film "Ghostbusters."
  • A. Ben Young Mason
    Ben Young Mason is a television writer and producer best known for creating the science fiction series "Mars."
  • B. William Joel Bryan
    William Joel Bryan was a 19th-century Texas landowner and nephew of Stephen F. Austin, recognized as an early settler and community figure in the region that now includes the city of Bryan, Texas.
  • C. Tom Barnett
    Tom Barnett is an actor known for his role in the Canadian drama film "Take This Waltz."
  • D. Ben Young
    Ben Young is the son of Canadian singer-songwriter Pegi Young and her former husband, musician Neil Young.
  • E. Brian Berry
    Brian Berry is a prominent British geographer known for his influential work in urban and regional analysis and contributions to quantitative geography.
  • 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_69d85cd2e28481909d4e975bee20872f completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f306a1c8190a819541a3cc51f5a completed April 16, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff6ee2a33c81908fcd120ca670b309 completed May 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff6fd9c968819098b2552a9deb0445 completed May 9, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff708d42448190a53b90e00721eaa5 completed May 9, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:16 a.m.