Triple
T16316102
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Cigarette Smoking Man |
E396176
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
C.G.B. Spender
C.G.B. Spender is a shadowy, high-ranking government conspirator and primary antagonist in the television series "The X-Files," commonly known as the Cigarette Smoking Man.
|
E1205331
|
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: C.G.B. Spender | Statement: [The Cigarette Smoking Man, alsoKnownAs, C.G.B. Spender]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C.G.B. Spender Context triple: [The Cigarette Smoking Man, alsoKnownAs, C.G.B. Spender]
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A.
Alan Spender
Alan Spender is a central character in the 1951 film noir thriller "The House on Telegraph Hill," involved in the story’s web of deception and suspense.
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B.
Edward Falles Spence
Edward Falles Spence was a 19th-century American businessman, banker, and politician who served as mayor of Los Angeles and was influential in the city’s early development.
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C.
Ralph Spence
Ralph Spence was an American screenwriter and playwright known for his work on early 20th-century stage and film comedies.
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D.
Charles Sporck
Charles Sporck is an American engineer and executive best known for leading National Semiconductor to become a major force in the global semiconductor industry after an early career at Fairchild Semiconductor.
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E.
C. C. Baxter
C. C. Baxter is the ambitious but lonely insurance clerk at the center of Billy Wilder’s classic film "The Apartment," whose moral awakening unfolds as he lends his apartment to philandering executives.
- 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: C.G.B. Spender Triple: [The Cigarette Smoking Man, alsoKnownAs, C.G.B. Spender]
Generated description
C.G.B. Spender is a shadowy, high-ranking government conspirator and primary antagonist in the television series "The X-Files," commonly known as the Cigarette Smoking Man.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C.G.B. Spender Target entity description: C.G.B. Spender is a shadowy, high-ranking government conspirator and primary antagonist in the television series "The X-Files," commonly known as the Cigarette Smoking Man.
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A.
Alan Spender
Alan Spender is a central character in the 1951 film noir thriller "The House on Telegraph Hill," involved in the story’s web of deception and suspense.
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B.
Edward Falles Spence
Edward Falles Spence was a 19th-century American businessman, banker, and politician who served as mayor of Los Angeles and was influential in the city’s early development.
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C.
Ralph Spence
Ralph Spence was an American screenwriter and playwright known for his work on early 20th-century stage and film comedies.
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D.
Charles Sporck
Charles Sporck is an American engineer and executive best known for leading National Semiconductor to become a major force in the global semiconductor industry after an early career at Fairchild Semiconductor.
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E.
C. C. Baxter
C. C. Baxter is the ambitious but lonely insurance clerk at the center of Billy Wilder’s classic film "The Apartment," whose moral awakening unfolds as he lends his apartment to philandering executives.
- 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_69d87f255b788190a400eba031dd85d8 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e296b1e9988190a1dce9f1ed7031df |
completed | April 17, 2026, 8:23 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a001fa9f6dc81908e6cbb4e340356e1 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 6:03 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a002085bcf08190b60f8d864f2c0f24 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 6:07 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a00217ff2ec81909bb0fd0dd775a0ae |
completed | May 10, 2026, 6:11 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:06 a.m.