Triple
T21040369
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Reg Varney |
E518304
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Reginald Alfred Varney |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Reginald Alfred Varney | Statement: [Reg Varney, birthName, Reginald Alfred Varney]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald Alfred Varney Context triple: [Reg Varney, birthName, Reginald Alfred Varney]
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A.
Ralph Fell
Ralph Fell was an English Jesuit priest and scholar active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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B.
Victor Silvester
Victor Silvester was a renowned British ballroom dancer, bandleader, and composer who popularized strict-tempo dance music in the mid-20th century.
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C.
William Inwood
William Inwood was a 19th-century British architect best known for his role in designing the Greek Revival-style St Pancras New Church in London.
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D.
James Albert Varney Jr.
James Albert Varney Jr. was an American actor and comedian best known for portraying the bumbling character Ernest P. Worrell in a series of films and commercials.
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E.
William Rust
William Rust was a prominent figure associated with California, likely an early landowner or local leader, after whom the community of Rust, California was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reginald Alfred Varney Target entity description: Reginald Alfred Varney was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Stan Butler in the popular British sitcom "On the Buses."
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A.
Ralph Fell
Ralph Fell was an English Jesuit priest and scholar active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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B.
Victor Silvester
Victor Silvester was a renowned British ballroom dancer, bandleader, and composer who popularized strict-tempo dance music in the mid-20th century.
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C.
William Inwood
William Inwood was a 19th-century British architect best known for his role in designing the Greek Revival-style St Pancras New Church in London.
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D.
James Albert Varney Jr.
James Albert Varney Jr. was an American actor and comedian best known for portraying the bumbling character Ernest P. Worrell in a series of films and commercials.
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E.
William Rust
William Rust was a prominent figure associated with California, likely an early landowner or local leader, after whom the community of Rust, California was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69e0b50438e08190917e2538bb8bc034 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6fceed9148190903adb3b55f65242 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 4:28 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:15 p.m.