Triple

T18685136
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oscar Madison E456840 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Ron Glass
Ron Glass was an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Ron Harris on the sitcom "Barney Miller" and Shepherd Book on the science fiction series "Firefly."
 E453091 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: Ron Glass | Statement: [Oscar Madison, portrayedBy, Ron Glass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ron Glass
Context triple: [Oscar Madison, portrayedBy, Ron Glass]
  • A. Ron Glass
    Ron Glass was an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Ron Harris on the sitcom "Barney Miller" and Shepherd Book on the science fiction series "Firefly."
  • B. Bob Gunton
    Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
  • C. Glenn Gilger
    Glenn Gilger is an American child voice actor best known for providing the voice of one of the Peanuts characters in the animated film "A Boy Named Charlie Brown."
  • D. Keith Nelson
    Keith Nelson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the hard rock band Buckcherry.
  • E. Ben Stahl
    Ben Stahl is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to distinguish him among others sharing the surname Stahl.
  • 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: Ron Glass
Triple: [Oscar Madison, portrayedBy, Ron Glass]
Generated description
Ron Glass was an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Ron Harris on the sitcom "Barney Miller" and Shepherd Book on the science fiction series "Firefly."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ron Glass
Target entity description: Ron Glass was an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Ron Harris on the sitcom "Barney Miller" and Shepherd Book on the science fiction series "Firefly."
  • A. Ron Glass chosen
    Ron Glass was an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Ron Harris on the sitcom "Barney Miller" and Shepherd Book on the science fiction series "Firefly."
  • B. Bob Gunton
    Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
  • C. Glenn Gilger
    Glenn Gilger is an American child voice actor best known for providing the voice of one of the Peanuts characters in the animated film "A Boy Named Charlie Brown."
  • D. Keith Nelson
    Keith Nelson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the hard rock band Buckcherry.
  • E. Ben Stahl
    Ben Stahl is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to distinguish him among others sharing the surname Stahl.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8d391eb488190ac2e9abf5bf255e4 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e55b2c58188190b906c9ab080a76ff completed April 19, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a052b2dea248190a0483f3aa063247a completed May 14, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a052cbd06948190ad43c0e9c87f923d completed May 14, 2026, 2 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a052dcc4550819083f77cb8af1326d8 completed May 14, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:49 a.m.