Triple

T20882844
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Desk Set E514195 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Richard Sumner
Richard Sumner is the efficiency expert and computer engineer who introduces an early mainframe computer to a television network’s research department in the classic film "Desk Set."
 E1455647 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 Sumner | Statement: [Desk Set, featuresCharacter, Richard Sumner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Sumner
Context triple: [Desk Set, featuresCharacter, Richard Sumner]
  • A. John Bird Sumner
    John Bird Sumner was a 19th-century English churchman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and was known for his evangelical views within the Church of England.
  • B. Warren Sharples
    Warren Sharples is a musician known for being a member of the new wave band Tom Tom Club.
  • C. Charles Bingham
    Charles Bingham was a 19th-century figure best known as a son of the prominent American missionary Hiram Bingham I, who played a key role in early Protestant missions to Hawaii.
  • D. Charles Heath
    Charles Heath was a prominent 19th-century English engraver known for his book illustrations and contributions to the popularization of steel engraving.
  • E. James Fawcett
    James Fawcett was an architect best known for co-designing Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street Station.
  • 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 Sumner
Triple: [Desk Set, featuresCharacter, Richard Sumner]
Generated description
Richard Sumner is the efficiency expert and computer engineer who introduces an early mainframe computer to a television network’s research department in the classic film "Desk Set."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Sumner
Target entity description: Richard Sumner is the efficiency expert and computer engineer who introduces an early mainframe computer to a television network’s research department in the classic film "Desk Set."
  • A. John Bird Sumner
    John Bird Sumner was a 19th-century English churchman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and was known for his evangelical views within the Church of England.
  • B. Warren Sharples
    Warren Sharples is a musician known for being a member of the new wave band Tom Tom Club.
  • C. Charles Bingham
    Charles Bingham was a 19th-century figure best known as a son of the prominent American missionary Hiram Bingham I, who played a key role in early Protestant missions to Hawaii.
  • D. Charles Heath
    Charles Heath was a prominent 19th-century English engraver known for his book illustrations and contributions to the popularization of steel engraving.
  • E. James Fawcett
    James Fawcett was an architect best known for co-designing Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street Station.
  • 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_69e0b4f733f081908a401c0b7beb0b9f completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c67b03088190be7cbcde8c59509a completed April 21, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0913a46d808190a39fc27ecbb31e99 completed May 17, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09145a9b0481909086941cdd981e1a completed May 17, 2026, 1:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0914f1925081909bce8ad0932c6722 completed May 17, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:46 p.m.