Triple

T15699422
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Meatballs III: Summer Job E380554 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Al Waxman
Al Waxman was a Canadian actor and director best known for his roles in the television series "King of Kensington" and "Cagney & Lacey."
E1171937 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: Al Waxman | Statement: [Meatballs III: Summer Job, starring, Al Waxman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Waxman
Context triple: [Meatballs III: Summer Job, starring, Al Waxman]
  • A. John Lardner
    John Lardner was an American sportswriter and journalist known for his witty, insightful columns and essays in publications such as The New Yorker during the mid-20th century.
  • B. Walter Bullock
    Walter Bullock was an American songwriter and screenwriter best known for his work on Hollywood musicals and films in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Eugene Burdick
    Eugene Burdick was an American political scientist, novelist, and co-author of influential Cold War-era political thrillers such as "Fail-Safe" and "The Ugly American."
  • D. Murray Kempton
    Murray Kempton was an American journalist, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer known for his incisive political commentary and elegant prose.
  • E. Irving Lippman
    Irving Lippman was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century films and television series.
  • 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: Al Waxman
Triple: [Meatballs III: Summer Job, starring, Al Waxman]
Generated description
Al Waxman was a Canadian actor and director best known for his roles in the television series "King of Kensington" and "Cagney & Lacey."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Al Waxman
Target entity description: Al Waxman was a Canadian actor and director best known for his roles in the television series "King of Kensington" and "Cagney & Lacey."
  • A. John Lardner
    John Lardner was an American sportswriter and journalist known for his witty, insightful columns and essays in publications such as The New Yorker during the mid-20th century.
  • B. Walter Bullock
    Walter Bullock was an American songwriter and screenwriter best known for his work on Hollywood musicals and films in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • C. Eugene Burdick
    Eugene Burdick was an American political scientist, novelist, and co-author of influential Cold War-era political thrillers such as "Fail-Safe" and "The Ugly American."
  • D. Murray Kempton
    Murray Kempton was an American journalist, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer known for his incisive political commentary and elegant prose.
  • E. Irving Lippman
    Irving Lippman was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous mid-20th-century films and television series.
  • 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_69d86d99e860819094b6957cde470f2c completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f6d71308190971c10c599da9645 completed April 16, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff75756ecc8190bd2123ddfd080fd1 completed May 9, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff763d40348190bf102da746420390 completed May 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff76ec45948190bee47609c0d2fd10 completed May 9, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:44 a.m.