Triple

T2459569
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Soldier's Story E54498 entity
Predicate starredActor P5563 FINISHED
Object Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Howard E. Rollins Jr. was an American actor best known for his acclaimed performances in films like "A Soldier's Story" and the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
 E268041 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: Howard E. Rollins Jr. | Statement: [A Soldier's Story, starredActor, Howard E. Rollins Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Context triple: [A Soldier's Story, starredActor, Howard E. Rollins Jr.]
  • A. Alonzo W. Rollins
    Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
  • B. Roy Hinson
    Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
  • C. Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
    Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. is an American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur best known by his stage name Nelly, who rose to fame in the early 2000s with hit albums like "Country Grammar" and "Nellyville."
  • D. Armond Hill
    Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
  • E. Noland B. Harmon
    Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • 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: Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Triple: [A Soldier's Story, starredActor, Howard E. Rollins Jr.]
Generated description
Howard E. Rollins Jr. was an American actor best known for his acclaimed performances in films like "A Soldier's Story" and the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Target entity description: Howard E. Rollins Jr. was an American actor best known for his acclaimed performances in films like "A Soldier's Story" and the television series "In the Heat of the Night."
  • A. Alonzo W. Rollins
    Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
  • B. Roy Hinson
    Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
  • C. Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.
    Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. is an American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur best known by his stage name Nelly, who rose to fame in the early 2000s with hit albums like "Country Grammar" and "Nellyville."
  • D. Armond Hill
    Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
  • E. Noland B. Harmon
    Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • 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_69ab49dee84c819096b50a0049c347ac completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd10a35f88190b102a2cb5c88146e completed March 7, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aef0cff4248190832f75ce36a357e2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aef186935c81909301659a96e1a4e2 completed March 9, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aef8272668819084626e890a49e1b3 completed March 9, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.