Triple

T2008408
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Pleasure of His Company E43637 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Charles Ruggles
Charles Ruggles was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in film, radio, and television from the 1920s through the 1960s.
 E250404 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: Charles Ruggles | Statement: [The Pleasure of His Company, starring, Charles Ruggles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Ruggles
Context triple: [The Pleasure of His Company, starring, Charles Ruggles]
  • A. Warren William
    Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
  • B. Warner Oland
    Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor best known for portraying the detective Charlie Chan in a popular series of 1930s films.
  • C. Fredric March
    Fredric March was an acclaimed American stage and film actor, renowned for his versatility and two Academy Award–winning performances in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Best Years of Our Lives."
  • D. Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
  • E. Charles Bickford
    Charles Bickford was an American character actor known for his rugged screen presence and acclaimed supporting roles in numerous classic Hollywood films.
  • 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: Charles Ruggles
Triple: [The Pleasure of His Company, starring, Charles Ruggles]
Generated description
Charles Ruggles was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in film, radio, and television from the 1920s through the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Ruggles
Target entity description: Charles Ruggles was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in film, radio, and television from the 1920s through the 1960s.
  • A. Warren William
    Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
  • B. Warner Oland
    Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor best known for portraying the detective Charlie Chan in a popular series of 1930s films.
  • C. Fredric March
    Fredric March was an acclaimed American stage and film actor, renowned for his versatility and two Academy Award–winning performances in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Best Years of Our Lives."
  • D. Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
  • E. Charles Bickford
    Charles Bickford was an American character actor known for his rugged screen presence and acclaimed supporting roles in numerous classic Hollywood films.
  • 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_69a88716e9f08190946313fdc949e3cf completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb89aca908190b8b659af65afdf6f completed March 7, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71a7e3408190955aa7f2534316dc completed March 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae74190ac481908d1a54fb744e7df3 completed March 9, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae7472fe948190b8df210de1afb159 completed March 9, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.