Triple

T23110951

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	The Black Hole (1979 film)	`E576316`	entity
Predicate	starred	`P5563`	FINISHED
Object	Joseph Bottoms	`—`	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: Joseph Bottoms | Statement: [The Black Hole (1979 film), starred, Joseph Bottoms]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Joseph Bottoms
Context triple: [The Black Hole (1979 film), starred, Joseph Bottoms]

A. Edmund Pennington
Edmund Pennington was a prominent railroad executive after whom Pennington County in South Dakota was named.
B. Robert Barnwell
Robert Barnwell was an American Revolutionary War soldier and later a politician from South Carolina who served in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Congress.
C. Samuel Johnston
Samuel Johnston was an American lawyer, statesman, and early political leader from North Carolina who served as governor of the state and as a U.S. senator after the Revolutionary War.
D. William Hooper Councill
William Hooper Councill was a 19th-century African American educator, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who became a prominent leader in Black higher education in the post-Civil War South.
E. Nathaniel Pendleton
Nathaniel Pendleton was an American Revolutionary War officer, jurist, and close associate of Alexander Hamilton who served as Hamilton’s second in the Burr–Hamilton duel.
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: Joseph Bottoms
Target entity description: Joseph Bottoms is an American actor best known for his work in film and television during the 1970s and 1980s, including roles in science fiction and drama productions.

A. Edmund Pennington
Edmund Pennington was a prominent railroad executive after whom Pennington County in South Dakota was named.
B. Robert Barnwell
Robert Barnwell was an American Revolutionary War soldier and later a politician from South Carolina who served in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Congress.
C. Samuel Johnston
Samuel Johnston was an American lawyer, statesman, and early political leader from North Carolina who served as governor of the state and as a U.S. senator after the Revolutionary War.
D. William Hooper Councill
William Hooper Councill was a 19th-century African American educator, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who became a prominent leader in Black higher education in the post-Civil War South.
E. Nathaniel Pendleton
Nathaniel Pendleton was an American Revolutionary War officer, jurist, and close associate of Alexander Hamilton who served as Hamilton’s second in the Burr–Hamilton duel.
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_69e245f4af548190898d434a64a1e774`	completed	April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69f18e0f4d188190a9395074c630ab0d`	completed	April 29, 2026, 4:50 a.m.

Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:58 p.m.