Triple

T16633389
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Bob Mathias Story E404132 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object James Flavin
James Flavin was an American character actor known for his prolific appearances in films and television from the 1930s through the 1960s, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and military officers.
 E1224914 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: James Flavin | Statement: [The Bob Mathias Story, castMember, James Flavin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Flavin
Context triple: [The Bob Mathias Story, castMember, James Flavin]
  • A. Jeff Bleckner
    Jeff Bleckner is an American television and film director known for his work on acclaimed TV movies and series, including the Emmy-winning "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story."
  • B. Edward Hinton
    Edward Hinton is a relatively obscure individual whose primary notability appears to stem from sharing the Hinton surname rather than from widely recognized independent achievements.
  • C. James Trombly
    James Trombly is an author known for writing Western-themed works centered on cowboy life and culture.
  • D. Harry Kurnitz
    Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
  • E. Michale Graves
    Michale Graves is an American punk rock singer best known as the lead vocalist for the Misfits during their 1990s reformation era.
  • 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: James Flavin
Triple: [The Bob Mathias Story, castMember, James Flavin]
Generated description
James Flavin was an American character actor known for his prolific appearances in films and television from the 1930s through the 1960s, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and military officers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Flavin
Target entity description: James Flavin was an American character actor known for his prolific appearances in films and television from the 1930s through the 1960s, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and military officers.
  • A. Jeff Bleckner
    Jeff Bleckner is an American television and film director known for his work on acclaimed TV movies and series, including the Emmy-winning "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story."
  • B. Edward Hinton
    Edward Hinton is a relatively obscure individual whose primary notability appears to stem from sharing the Hinton surname rather than from widely recognized independent achievements.
  • C. James Trombly
    James Trombly is an author known for writing Western-themed works centered on cowboy life and culture.
  • D. Harry Kurnitz
    Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
  • E. Michale Graves
    Michale Graves is an American punk rock singer best known as the lead vocalist for the Misfits during their 1990s reformation era.
  • 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_69d883897eb481909eaaa088ba9918d9 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e378e7d4a48190a9b4a14ecbb2a14b completed April 18, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a007dbe82b4819093b954567790bef7 completed May 10, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a007e747eac81908b0b5a2072a177dd completed May 10, 2026, 12:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007f75e7e48190ac5cf912cca60d9c completed May 10, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:17 a.m.