Triple

T173369
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Backstairs at the White House E3524 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Michael O'Herlihy
Michael O'Herlihy was an Irish-born television and film director known for his extensive work on American TV series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s.
E66790 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: Michael O'Herlihy | Statement: [Backstairs at the White House, director, Michael O'Herlihy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael O'Herlihy
Context triple: [Backstairs at the White House, director, Michael O'Herlihy]
  • A. Michael H. Moloney
    Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
  • B. William McGann
    William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
  • C. Martin J. Hillenbrand
    Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • D. James Honaker
    James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
  • E. Michael V. Drake
    Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
  • 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: Michael O'Herlihy
Triple: [Backstairs at the White House, director, Michael O'Herlihy]
Generated description
Michael O'Herlihy was an Irish-born television and film director known for his extensive work on American TV series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael O'Herlihy
Target entity description: Michael O'Herlihy was an Irish-born television and film director known for his extensive work on American TV series and miniseries in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • A. Michael H. Moloney
    Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
  • B. William McGann
    William McGann was an American cinematographer and film director active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on adventure and genre films.
  • C. Martin J. Hillenbrand
    Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • D. James Honaker
    James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
  • E. Michael V. Drake
    Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
  • 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_69a25374990081909766d30c79a18e0e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a258e1ec008190a89dd452f72574f4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4c029f10c8190a755e230528f3b7b completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4c0b0868881909e28d253c2971618 completed March 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4c131bd8881909501843d85145979 completed March 1, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:39 a.m.