Triple

T16539206
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Darren McGavin E401775 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Carl Kolchak
Carl Kolchak is a fictional, doggedly persistent investigative reporter best known as the monster-hunting protagonist of the 1970s horror series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker."
E1219563 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: Carl Kolchak | Statement: [Darren McGavin, portrayed, Carl Kolchak]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Kolchak
Context triple: [Darren McGavin, portrayed, Carl Kolchak]
  • A. Frank S. Black
    Frank S. Black was a Republican politician who served as the 32nd governor of New York from 1897 to 1898.
  • B. Ed Decter
    Ed Decter is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on hit comedies such as "There's Something About Mary" and for co-creating the TV series "Shadowhunters."
  • C. Derek Fell
    Derek Fell was a British-born American garden writer, photographer, and designer known for his prolific books and expertise in ornamental and vegetable gardening.
  • D. Nick Castle
    Nick Castle is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the 1984 fantasy film "The Last Starfighter" and for portraying Michael Myers in John Carpenter's original "Halloween."
  • E. Nick Castle
    Nick Castle was a prominent American choreographer and dance director in Hollywood, best known for staging musical numbers in classic mid-20th-century films.
  • 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: Carl Kolchak
Triple: [Darren McGavin, portrayed, Carl Kolchak]
Generated description
Carl Kolchak is a fictional, doggedly persistent investigative reporter best known as the monster-hunting protagonist of the 1970s horror series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Kolchak
Target entity description: Carl Kolchak is a fictional, doggedly persistent investigative reporter best known as the monster-hunting protagonist of the 1970s horror series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker."
  • A. Frank S. Black
    Frank S. Black was a Republican politician who served as the 32nd governor of New York from 1897 to 1898.
  • B. Ed Decter
    Ed Decter is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on hit comedies such as "There's Something About Mary" and for co-creating the TV series "Shadowhunters."
  • C. Derek Fell
    Derek Fell was a British-born American garden writer, photographer, and designer known for his prolific books and expertise in ornamental and vegetable gardening.
  • D. Nick Castle
    Nick Castle is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the 1984 fantasy film "The Last Starfighter" and for portraying Michael Myers in John Carpenter's original "Halloween."
  • E. Nick Castle
    Nick Castle was a prominent American choreographer and dance director in Hollywood, best known for staging musical numbers in classic mid-20th-century films.
  • 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_69d88384bc30819084229e7dcdc39a41 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3455a98b481909e489ea7bd01570a completed April 18, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0067ae169c81909a123b7dfe3fd906 completed May 10, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00684197b08190b53d7c1efbd3edd0 completed May 10, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0068fa85448190aef06ff27fe16305 completed May 10, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.