Triple

T18821250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Clan of the Cave Bear (film) E460267 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Thomas G. Waites
Thomas G. Waites is an American actor and acting teacher best known for his roles in films such as "The Warriors" and John Carpenter's "The Thing."
E1921361 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas G. Waites | Statement: [The Clan of the Cave Bear (film), castMember, Thomas G. Waites]
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: Thomas G. Waites
Triple: [The Clan of the Cave Bear (film), castMember, Thomas G. Waites]
Generated description
Thomas G. Waites is an American actor and acting teacher best known for his roles in films such as "The Warriors" and John Carpenter's "The Thing."

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_69d8dcf94c288190a06dea029ae4b223 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5a6ba90988190a93e1c2fa23b3d1d completed April 20, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a2856c775e48190aee2aef9a9afdb6d completed June 9, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a28580a709881909ac6fd5f8de98898 completed June 9, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a2858f2b1b48190b07bf76bd6487345 completed June 9, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.