Triple

T2645728
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roxanne E62977 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object C.D. Bales
C.D. Bales is the witty, large-nosed fire chief and romantic lead portrayed by Steve Martin in the 1987 film "Roxanne," a modern retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac.
 E362196 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: C.D. Bales | Statement: [Roxanne, mainCharacter, C.D. Bales]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: C.D. Bales
Context triple: [Roxanne, mainCharacter, C.D. Bales]
  • A. Barton MacLane
    Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
  • B. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • C. J. Miles Dale
    J. Miles Dale is a Canadian film and television producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance film "The Shape of Water."
  • D. John Boles
    John Boles was an American actor and singer best known for his leading-man roles in early sound-era Hollywood films.
  • E. William Baker
    William Baker was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for designing major railway structures, including prominent bridges for the expanding Victorian rail network.
  • 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: C.D. Bales
Triple: [Roxanne, mainCharacter, C.D. Bales]
Generated description
C.D. Bales is the witty, large-nosed fire chief and romantic lead portrayed by Steve Martin in the 1987 film "Roxanne," a modern retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: C.D. Bales
Target entity description: C.D. Bales is the witty, large-nosed fire chief and romantic lead portrayed by Steve Martin in the 1987 film "Roxanne," a modern retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac.
  • A. Barton MacLane
    Barton MacLane was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Hollywood films and later for his work in early television.
  • B. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • C. J. Miles Dale
    J. Miles Dale is a Canadian film and television producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance film "The Shape of Water."
  • D. John Boles
    John Boles was an American actor and singer best known for his leading-man roles in early sound-era Hollywood films.
  • E. William Baker
    William Baker was a 19th-century British civil engineer noted for designing major railway structures, including prominent bridges for the expanding Victorian rail network.
  • 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_69ab4c3f2dcc819082df80f5e032f690 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd91846b4819093a063c15e1ee6af completed March 7, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3737db06481908b854eff532fce18 completed March 13, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b373f5a3108190aea3918190831f7e completed March 13, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3745e11c081909e8d9bc7551d9e81 completed March 13, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.