Triple

T19634407
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Katt E471352 entity
Predicate playedCharacter P1507 FINISHED
Object Ralph Hinkley
Ralph Hinkley is the bumbling high-school teacher-turned-superhero protagonist of the 1980s TV series "The Greatest American Hero."
E1389339 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: Ralph Hinkley | Statement: [William Katt, playedCharacter, Ralph Hinkley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Hinkley
Context triple: [William Katt, playedCharacter, Ralph Hinkley]
  • A. Charles Ewing
    Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
  • B. Hugh Acheson
    Hugh Acheson is a Canadian-born chef and restaurateur known for his modern Southern cuisine and frequent appearances as a judge on culinary television competitions.
  • C. Joel Sayre
    Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
  • D. George Allen Ross
    George Allen Ross was a prominent Canadian architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Ross and Macdonald.
  • E. Laurence Luckinbill
    Laurence Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright, and director known for his work on stage, film, and television, including his role as Sybok in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier."
  • 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: Ralph Hinkley
Triple: [William Katt, playedCharacter, Ralph Hinkley]
Generated description
Ralph Hinkley is the bumbling high-school teacher-turned-superhero protagonist of the 1980s TV series "The Greatest American Hero."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Hinkley
Target entity description: Ralph Hinkley is the bumbling high-school teacher-turned-superhero protagonist of the 1980s TV series "The Greatest American Hero."
  • A. Charles Ewing
    Charles Ewing was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and later a federal official, known as a prominent member of the influential Ewing family.
  • B. Hugh Acheson
    Hugh Acheson is a Canadian-born chef and restaurateur known for his modern Southern cuisine and frequent appearances as a judge on culinary television competitions.
  • C. Joel Sayre
    Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
  • D. George Allen Ross
    George Allen Ross was a prominent Canadian architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Ross and Macdonald.
  • E. Laurence Luckinbill
    Laurence Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright, and director known for his work on stage, film, and television, including his role as Sybok in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier."
  • 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_69d8e511f28481909f4bc3ea9191e54a completed April 10, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e64104ff2881908fec49b7fba5a2e6 completed April 20, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0787b195f88190b07d74608c96b923 completed May 15, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a078df4746c8190a1aa9ee394c6c2f9 completed May 15, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a078e54a7c0819097659a807b21ac10 completed May 15, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:44 p.m.