Triple

T3066424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Object of My Affection E62113 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object John Pankow
John Pankow is an American actor best known for his role as Ira Buchman on the television sitcom "Mad About You" and for numerous supporting roles in film and theater.
E324407 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: John Pankow | Statement: [The Object of My Affection, starring, John Pankow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Pankow
Context triple: [The Object of My Affection, starring, John Pankow]
  • A. Bill Pankow
    Bill Pankow is an American film editor known for his work on numerous feature films, including crime and thriller dramas.
  • B. Hal Bidlack
    Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
  • C. Sam Jaffe
    Sam Jaffe was an American actor and character performer known for memorable roles in classic films such as "Gunga Din," "The Asphalt Jungle," and "Ben-Hur."
  • D. Bill Marshall
    Bill Marshall was a Canadian film producer and cultural entrepreneur best known for co-founding and helping establish the Toronto International Film Festival as a major global cinema event.
  • E. Jeff Buchanan
    Jeff Buchanan is a professional editor, likely working in publishing or media, known for collaborating on written content such as articles or manuscripts.
  • 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: John Pankow
Triple: [The Object of My Affection, starring, John Pankow]
Generated description
John Pankow is an American actor best known for his role as Ira Buchman on the television sitcom "Mad About You" and for numerous supporting roles in film and theater.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Pankow
Target entity description: John Pankow is an American actor best known for his role as Ira Buchman on the television sitcom "Mad About You" and for numerous supporting roles in film and theater.
  • A. Bill Pankow
    Bill Pankow is an American film editor known for his work on numerous feature films, including crime and thriller dramas.
  • B. Hal Bidlack
    Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
  • C. Sam Jaffe
    Sam Jaffe was an American actor and character performer known for memorable roles in classic films such as "Gunga Din," "The Asphalt Jungle," and "Ben-Hur."
  • D. Bill Marshall
    Bill Marshall was a Canadian film producer and cultural entrepreneur best known for co-founding and helping establish the Toronto International Film Festival as a major global cinema event.
  • E. Jeff Buchanan
    Jeff Buchanan is a professional editor, likely working in publishing or media, known for collaborating on written content such as articles or manuscripts.
  • 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_69ad85793e5c8190a358049bc4a98d8c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada0fd87308190918e7b616f033faa completed March 8, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f87bec6c8190ae928fc7c4467859 completed March 11, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f9151ce4819092f2c4b5ccd10b30 completed March 11, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f9b88ad481909e8e9e889cd828c6 completed March 11, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.