Triple

T315414
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Singing Fool E7694 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Arthur Housman
Arthur Housman was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, best remembered for his frequent portrayals of comic drunkards in numerous Hollywood movies.
E40596 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: Arthur Housman | Statement: [The Singing Fool, starring, Arthur Housman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Housman
Context triple: [The Singing Fool, starring, Arthur Housman]
  • A. Francis Thompson
    Francis Thompson was a 19th-century British railway architect known for designing several major stations during the early expansion of the railway network in the United Kingdom.
  • B. Robert Fergusson
    Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
  • C. John Merrill
    John Merrill was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential international architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • D. Frederic Sandys
    Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
  • E. Arthur Hughes
    Arthur Hughes was a 19th-century English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his poetic, detailed, and often romantic works.
  • 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: Arthur Housman
Triple: [The Singing Fool, starring, Arthur Housman]
Generated description
Arthur Housman was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, best remembered for his frequent portrayals of comic drunkards in numerous Hollywood movies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Housman
Target entity description: Arthur Housman was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, best remembered for his frequent portrayals of comic drunkards in numerous Hollywood movies.
  • A. Francis Thompson
    Francis Thompson was a 19th-century British railway architect known for designing several major stations during the early expansion of the railway network in the United Kingdom.
  • B. Robert Fergusson
    Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
  • C. John Merrill
    John Merrill was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential international architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • D. Frederic Sandys
    Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
  • E. Arthur Hughes
    Arthur Hughes was a 19th-century English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his poetic, detailed, and often romantic works.
  • 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_69a2e7e7af7881908890039d6be4e9b8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea6462148190825acc57f6d2adaf completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3c41c00888190861d2b6d4bfc8904 completed March 1, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3c5cca244819082e9565558f23dbe completed March 1, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3c64599ac81908e30e5452cc91b97 completed March 1, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.