Triple

T3239271
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cosby Show E67928 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Geoffrey Owens
Geoffrey Owens is an American actor best known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on the long-running sitcom "The Cosby Show."
E342290 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: Geoffrey Owens | Statement: [The Cosby Show, starring, Geoffrey Owens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Geoffrey Owens
Context triple: [The Cosby Show, starring, Geoffrey Owens]
  • A. John Hilliard
    John Hilliard is a British conceptual artist and photographer known for his experimental works that explore the nature of photographic representation and perception.
  • B. Ed Bullins
    Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Gregory Walcott
    Gregory Walcott was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including work in Westerns and cult science fiction.
  • D. Kenyon Hopkins
    Kenyon Hopkins was an American composer and arranger best known for his atmospheric jazz-influenced film and television scores of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Joseph McNeil
    Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • 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: Geoffrey Owens
Triple: [The Cosby Show, starring, Geoffrey Owens]
Generated description
Geoffrey Owens is an American actor best known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on the long-running sitcom "The Cosby Show."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Geoffrey Owens
Target entity description: Geoffrey Owens is an American actor best known for his role as Elvin Tibideaux on the long-running sitcom "The Cosby Show."
  • A. John Hilliard
    John Hilliard is a British conceptual artist and photographer known for his experimental works that explore the nature of photographic representation and perception.
  • B. Ed Bullins
    Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. Gregory Walcott
    Gregory Walcott was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including work in Westerns and cult science fiction.
  • D. Kenyon Hopkins
    Kenyon Hopkins was an American composer and arranger best known for his atmospheric jazz-influenced film and television scores of the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Joseph McNeil
    Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
  • 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_69ad858d27348190abb61c280b4c86a9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaef4c0bc819095e4f84296fe7cb6 completed March 8, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b28eadeff481909bd48cdf51044f86 completed March 12, 2026, 10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b28f9e12488190b93355b783300264 completed March 12, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2c092063481909982dea3f71c00c1 completed March 12, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.