Triple

T3342718
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Name Is Earl E70295 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Earl Hickey
Earl Hickey is the bumbling, well-meaning protagonist of the sitcom "My Name Is Earl," who devotes himself to making amends for his past misdeeds through a self-imposed karmic to-do list.
E393122 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: Earl Hickey | Statement: [My Name Is Earl, mainCharacter, Earl Hickey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Hickey
Context triple: [My Name Is Earl, mainCharacter, Earl Hickey]
  • A. Earl Hurd
    Earl Hurd was an American animator, director, and writer best known as a pioneer of cel animation and an influential early figure in the development of animated films.
  • B. Sylvester Keliher
    Sylvester Keliher was a prominent labor leader associated with the American Railway Union, an influential early industrial union in the United States.
  • C. Roy McGivern
    Roy McGivern is a Northern Irish football administrator best known for serving as chairman of Linfield FC, one of the country’s most successful and historic clubs.
  • D. Frank Fay
    Frank Fay was an American stage and film actor and vaudeville comedian, noted as an early master of stand-up comedy and for his tumultuous marriage to actress Barbara Stanwyck.
  • E. Thomas McClary
    Thomas McClary is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the funk and soul band the Commodores.
  • 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: Earl Hickey
Triple: [My Name Is Earl, mainCharacter, Earl Hickey]
Generated description
Earl Hickey is the bumbling, well-meaning protagonist of the sitcom "My Name Is Earl," who devotes himself to making amends for his past misdeeds through a self-imposed karmic to-do list.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Hickey
Target entity description: Earl Hickey is the bumbling, well-meaning protagonist of the sitcom "My Name Is Earl," who devotes himself to making amends for his past misdeeds through a self-imposed karmic to-do list.
  • A. Earl Hurd
    Earl Hurd was an American animator, director, and writer best known as a pioneer of cel animation and an influential early figure in the development of animated films.
  • B. Sylvester Keliher
    Sylvester Keliher was a prominent labor leader associated with the American Railway Union, an influential early industrial union in the United States.
  • C. Roy McGivern
    Roy McGivern is a Northern Irish football administrator best known for serving as chairman of Linfield FC, one of the country’s most successful and historic clubs.
  • D. Frank Fay
    Frank Fay was an American stage and film actor and vaudeville comedian, noted as an early master of stand-up comedy and for his tumultuous marriage to actress Barbara Stanwyck.
  • E. Thomas McClary
    Thomas McClary is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the funk and soul band the Commodores.
  • 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_69ad85a405e48190b6e68de7cf9f319e completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb1f06f8c8190a6b7c56ac3f5ff07 completed March 8, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b503d6cd9c81908acb288091503ec1 completed March 14, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b504b2ba748190af2df2a318ab0693 completed March 14, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b50534242c8190a1d4658e7896c2be completed March 14, 2026, 6:50 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.