Triple

T3239273
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cosby Show E67928 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Joseph C. Phillips
Joseph C. Phillips is an American actor and conservative commentator best known for his role as Lt. Martin Kendall on the television sitcom "The Cosby Show."
E513553 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: Joseph C. Phillips | Statement: [The Cosby Show, starring, Joseph C. Phillips]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph C. Phillips
Context triple: [The Cosby Show, starring, Joseph C. Phillips]
  • A. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • B. Frank V. Phillips
    Frank V. Phillips was an American cinematographer known for his work on mid-20th-century films, particularly in the fantasy and adventure genres.
  • C. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • D. John N. Pharr
    John N. Pharr was a prominent landowner and developer whose influence and contributions to the region led to the Texas city of Pharr being named in his honor.
  • E. Alvin B. Phillips
    Alvin B. Phillips is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a founder of the data storage company Western Digital.
  • 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: Joseph C. Phillips
Triple: [The Cosby Show, starring, Joseph C. Phillips]
Generated description
Joseph C. Phillips is an American actor and conservative commentator best known for his role as Lt. Martin Kendall on the television sitcom "The Cosby Show."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph C. Phillips
Target entity description: Joseph C. Phillips is an American actor and conservative commentator best known for his role as Lt. Martin Kendall on the television sitcom "The Cosby Show."
  • A. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • B. Frank V. Phillips
    Frank V. Phillips was an American cinematographer known for his work on mid-20th-century films, particularly in the fantasy and adventure genres.
  • C. Roger D. Lapham
    Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
  • D. John N. Pharr
    John N. Pharr was a prominent landowner and developer whose influence and contributions to the region led to the Texas city of Pharr being named in his honor.
  • E. Alvin B. Phillips
    Alvin B. Phillips is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a founder of the data storage company Western Digital.
  • 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_69bf219021d081909d814d0dbf564501 completed March 21, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf22669b4081909a0126e0d8e69fd2 completed March 21, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf232ed3508190880aab032f8f0b34 completed March 21, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.