Triple

T20417111
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil E500740 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Richard Herd
Richard Herd was an American character actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including appearances in projects like "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," "Seinfeld," and "All the President's Men."
E1447931 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: Richard Herd | Statement: [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, castMember, Richard Herd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Herd
Context triple: [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, castMember, Richard Herd]
  • A. James Herd
    James Herd was a 19th-century European mariner credited with the first recorded European discovery of Port Nicholson, the harbor of present-day Wellington, New Zealand.
  • B. Martin Boddey
    Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
  • C. Richard Hiscott
    Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
  • D. Richard Pearce
    Richard Pearce is a voice actor known for his work in animated films, including providing a character voice in Pixar's "A Bug's Life."
  • E. Richard Pearce
    Richard Pearce is an American cinematographer and film director known for his work on documentaries and feature films, including the acclaimed food industry exposé "Food, Inc."
  • 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: Richard Herd
Triple: [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, castMember, Richard Herd]
Generated description
Richard Herd was an American character actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including appearances in projects like "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," "Seinfeld," and "All the President's Men."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Herd
Target entity description: Richard Herd was an American character actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including appearances in projects like "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," "Seinfeld," and "All the President's Men."
  • A. James Herd
    James Herd was a 19th-century European mariner credited with the first recorded European discovery of Port Nicholson, the harbor of present-day Wellington, New Zealand.
  • B. Martin Boddey
    Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
  • C. Richard Hiscott
    Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
  • D. Richard Pearce
    Richard Pearce is a voice actor known for his work in animated films, including providing a character voice in Pixar's "A Bug's Life."
  • E. Richard Pearce
    Richard Pearce is an American cinematographer and film director known for his work on documentaries and feature films, including the acclaimed food industry exposé "Food, Inc."
  • 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_69e0b4a935588190b9446a99b37ced44 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e67a4437448190b07b6e6e3de5830f completed April 20, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08e8202e748190a043ac51dc8faa01 completed May 16, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e88b1e1c8190a02a52e50470ce79 completed May 16, 2026, 9:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e923a134819082e8d677c420f8ce completed May 16, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:30 a.m.