Triple

T2865363
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Jerk E63424 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Navin R. Johnson
Navin R. Johnson is the naive, bumbling protagonist of the 1979 comedy film "The Jerk," famously portrayed by Steve Martin.
E305222 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: Navin R. Johnson | Statement: [The Jerk, mainCharacter, Navin R. Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Navin R. Johnson
Context triple: [The Jerk, mainCharacter, Navin R. Johnson]
  • A. Michael Farris
    Michael Farris is an American lawyer and conservative activist best known for his leadership in the Christian homeschooling movement and his role in founding and guiding Patrick Henry College.
  • B. Michael S. Turner
    Michael S. Turner is an American cosmologist and astrophysicist known for pioneering work on dark energy, inflation, and the early universe.
  • C. Surangel Whipps Jr.
    Surangel Whipps Jr. is a Palauan politician and businessman who serves as the president of the Republic of Palau.
  • D. Lamont Sanford
    Lamont Sanford is a central character from the classic American sitcom "Sanford and Son," known as the long-suffering, pragmatic son who runs a junk business with his cantankerous father, Fred Sanford.
  • E. Theodore Vierra
    Theodore Vierra was a Hawaiian architect and developer known for his influential role in shaping mid-20th-century commercial and urban projects in Honolulu.
  • 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: Navin R. Johnson
Triple: [The Jerk, mainCharacter, Navin R. Johnson]
Generated description
Navin R. Johnson is the naive, bumbling protagonist of the 1979 comedy film "The Jerk," famously portrayed by Steve Martin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Navin R. Johnson
Target entity description: Navin R. Johnson is the naive, bumbling protagonist of the 1979 comedy film "The Jerk," famously portrayed by Steve Martin.
  • A. Michael Farris
    Michael Farris is an American lawyer and conservative activist best known for his leadership in the Christian homeschooling movement and his role in founding and guiding Patrick Henry College.
  • B. Michael S. Turner
    Michael S. Turner is an American cosmologist and astrophysicist known for pioneering work on dark energy, inflation, and the early universe.
  • C. Surangel Whipps Jr.
    Surangel Whipps Jr. is a Palauan politician and businessman who serves as the president of the Republic of Palau.
  • D. Lamont Sanford
    Lamont Sanford is a central character from the classic American sitcom "Sanford and Son," known as the long-suffering, pragmatic son who runs a junk business with his cantankerous father, Fred Sanford.
  • E. Theodore Vierra
    Theodore Vierra was a Hawaiian architect and developer known for his influential role in shaping mid-20th-century commercial and urban projects in Honolulu.
  • 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_69ab4c42fb8c8190b36e161d47c03b81 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdfb9e64c819087b1a47caeb174d5 completed March 7, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b01da458ec8190ae07237d7e23b302 completed March 10, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b01e45f6e481908665e0961c3a3778 completed March 10, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0224832108190be252c0245d588d2 completed March 10, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.