Triple

T18958956
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Who Was That Lady? E463857 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Barbara Nichols
Barbara Nichols was an American character actress and model known for her brassy, comedic blonde bombshell roles in films and television during the 1950s and 1960s.
 E1371714 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: Barbara Nichols | Statement: [Who Was That Lady?, starring, Barbara Nichols]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Barbara Nichols
Context triple: [Who Was That Lady?, starring, Barbara Nichols]
  • A. Barbara Follett
    Barbara Follett is a British Labour politician and former Member of Parliament who served as a government minister under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
  • B. Barbara Taylor
    Barbara Taylor is the wife of British cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, known for his work on films such as "Star Wars" and "Dr. Strangelove."
  • C. Rosemary Harris
    Rosemary Harris is a British actress acclaimed for her extensive stage and screen career, including a Tony Award win and an Academy Award nomination.
  • D. Dorothy B. Hughes
    Dorothy B. Hughes was an American crime and noir novelist and critic, best known for her psychologically complex suspense fiction that was frequently adapted for film.
  • E. Edna Healey
    Edna Healey was a British writer and documentary filmmaker known for her historical biographies and marriage to Labour politician Denis Healey.
  • 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: Barbara Nichols
Triple: [Who Was That Lady?, starring, Barbara Nichols]
Generated description
Barbara Nichols was an American character actress and model known for her brassy, comedic blonde bombshell roles in films and television during the 1950s and 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Barbara Nichols
Target entity description: Barbara Nichols was an American character actress and model known for her brassy, comedic blonde bombshell roles in films and television during the 1950s and 1960s.
  • A. Barbara Follett
    Barbara Follett is a British Labour politician and former Member of Parliament who served as a government minister under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
  • B. Barbara Taylor
    Barbara Taylor is the wife of British cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, known for his work on films such as "Star Wars" and "Dr. Strangelove."
  • C. Rosemary Harris
    Rosemary Harris is a British actress acclaimed for her extensive stage and screen career, including a Tony Award win and an Academy Award nomination.
  • D. Dorothy B. Hughes
    Dorothy B. Hughes was an American crime and noir novelist and critic, best known for her psychologically complex suspense fiction that was frequently adapted for film.
  • E. Edna Healey
    Edna Healey was a British writer and documentary filmmaker known for her historical biographies and marriage to Labour politician Denis Healey.
  • 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_69d8dcffc278819086792a4ebfddfafa completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d5d057a48190b82b5788b3281e28 completed April 20, 2026, 7:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0723f372908190a8cb204e1bbe910c completed May 15, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07257b21dc81908be073c286c3d3cb completed May 15, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07268dfaf88190ae8f93dbdbccdb5d completed May 15, 2026, 1:58 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon