Triple

T2995327
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shield E81051 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Kenny Johnson
Kenny Johnson is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Curtis Lemansky on the television crime drama "The Shield."
E315715 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: Kenny Johnson | Statement: [The Shield, portrayedBy, Kenny Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenny Johnson
Context triple: [The Shield, portrayedBy, Kenny Johnson]
  • A. Kenny Williams
    Kenny Williams is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who became best known as a longtime Chicago White Sox executive, helping build the roster that won the 2005 World Series.
  • B. Joe Johnson
    Joe Johnson is a music producer known for his work on the song "Hello Mary Lou."
  • C. Mike Grier
    Mike Grier is a former NHL winger who became the first Black general manager in league history when he took over hockey operations for the San Jose Sharks.
  • D. Merv Jackson
    Merv Jackson was a professional basketball guard best known for his key role with the Utah Stars in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the early 1970s.
  • E. Kenneth Parcell
    Kenneth Parcell is a relentlessly cheerful, naive NBC page on the sitcom "30 Rock," known for his unwavering optimism, Southern charm, and bizarrely long-lived backstory.
  • 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: Kenny Johnson
Triple: [The Shield, portrayedBy, Kenny Johnson]
Generated description
Kenny Johnson is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Curtis Lemansky on the television crime drama "The Shield."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenny Johnson
Target entity description: Kenny Johnson is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Curtis Lemansky on the television crime drama "The Shield."
  • A. Kenny Williams
    Kenny Williams is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who became best known as a longtime Chicago White Sox executive, helping build the roster that won the 2005 World Series.
  • B. Joe Johnson
    Joe Johnson is a music producer known for his work on the song "Hello Mary Lou."
  • C. Mike Grier
    Mike Grier is a former NHL winger who became the first Black general manager in league history when he took over hockey operations for the San Jose Sharks.
  • D. Merv Jackson
    Merv Jackson was a professional basketball guard best known for his key role with the Utah Stars in the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the early 1970s.
  • E. Kenneth Parcell
    Kenneth Parcell is a relentlessly cheerful, naive NBC page on the sitcom "30 Rock," known for his unwavering optimism, Southern charm, and bizarrely long-lived backstory.
  • 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_69ad8b187fc8819085914d3c9ea3142d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad99f2e5888190b3346012e2578dab completed March 8, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b10908cfe48190bf244d5a3dbc958b completed March 11, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b10ab5e3488190b2d8c98dd296cbe5 completed March 11, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b10b1664f081909b521ee8dd5954f9 completed March 11, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:59 p.m.