Triple

T1737439
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Bang Theory E37950 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Howard Wolowitz
Howard Wolowitz is a quirky, aerospace engineer and astronaut known for his flamboyant fashion sense and overconfident personality on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
E193352 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: Howard Wolowitz | Statement: [The Big Bang Theory, mainCharacter, Howard Wolowitz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Wolowitz
Context triple: [The Big Bang Theory, mainCharacter, Howard Wolowitz]
  • A. Michael Bluth
    Michael Bluth is the responsible, level-headed son who struggles to keep his wildly dysfunctional family and their failing real estate business together in the sitcom "Arrested Development."
  • B. Sheldon
    Sheldon is a masculine given name most notably associated with American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow.
  • C. Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin is a diabolically intelligent, British-accented infant from the animated TV series "Family Guy," known for his advanced vocabulary, world-domination schemes, and dark humor.
  • D. Felix Unger
    Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • E. Felix Unger
    Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
  • 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: Howard Wolowitz
Triple: [The Big Bang Theory, mainCharacter, Howard Wolowitz]
Generated description
Howard Wolowitz is a quirky, aerospace engineer and astronaut known for his flamboyant fashion sense and overconfident personality on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Wolowitz
Target entity description: Howard Wolowitz is a quirky, aerospace engineer and astronaut known for his flamboyant fashion sense and overconfident personality on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
  • A. Michael Bluth
    Michael Bluth is the responsible, level-headed son who struggles to keep his wildly dysfunctional family and their failing real estate business together in the sitcom "Arrested Development."
  • B. Sheldon
    Sheldon is a masculine given name most notably associated with American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow.
  • C. Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin is a diabolically intelligent, British-accented infant from the animated TV series "Family Guy," known for his advanced vocabulary, world-domination schemes, and dark humor.
  • D. Felix Unger
    Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • E. Felix Unger
    Felix Unger is a fictional, fastidious and neurotic neat-freak character best known as one of the mismatched roommates in Neil Simon’s play and subsequent adaptations of "The Odd Couple."
  • 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_69a8861cc6ac8190ac0b2e31ccf62851 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa63a47cd481909c211e4da7f5dfe9 completed March 6, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8b03303c8190a301dca327bf9f47 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad957e9a6c81909d52bf2def797526 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97b6c03881909f278594e800c0f5 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.