Triple

T3342726
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Name Is Earl E70295 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Eddie Steeples
Eddie Steeples is an American actor best known for playing the eccentric and soft-spoken character Darnell "Crabman" Turner on the television sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
 E348115 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: Eddie Steeples | Statement: [My Name Is Earl, portrayedBy, Eddie Steeples]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eddie Steeples
Context triple: [My Name Is Earl, portrayedBy, Eddie Steeples]
  • A. Eddie Pope
    Eddie Pope is a retired American soccer defender renowned for his key role with D.C. United and the U.S. national team during the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • B. Eddie Leslie
    Eddie Leslie was a British screenwriter and actor known for his work on mid-20th-century comedy films.
  • C. Eddie Hamilton
    Eddie Hamilton is a British film editor known for his work on high-profile action and blockbuster films, including entries in the "Mission: Impossible" and "Kingsman" franchises.
  • D. Eddie Spears
    Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
  • E. Eddie Constantine
    Eddie Constantine was an American-born French singer and actor best known for his tough-guy roles in European cinema, particularly as secret agent Lemmy Caution.
  • 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: Eddie Steeples
Triple: [My Name Is Earl, portrayedBy, Eddie Steeples]
Generated description
Eddie Steeples is an American actor best known for playing the eccentric and soft-spoken character Darnell "Crabman" Turner on the television sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eddie Steeples
Target entity description: Eddie Steeples is an American actor best known for playing the eccentric and soft-spoken character Darnell "Crabman" Turner on the television sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
  • A. Eddie Pope
    Eddie Pope is a retired American soccer defender renowned for his key role with D.C. United and the U.S. national team during the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • B. Eddie Leslie
    Eddie Leslie was a British screenwriter and actor known for his work on mid-20th-century comedy films.
  • C. Eddie Hamilton
    Eddie Hamilton is a British film editor known for his work on high-profile action and blockbuster films, including entries in the "Mission: Impossible" and "Kingsman" franchises.
  • D. Eddie Spears
    Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
  • E. Eddie Constantine
    Eddie Constantine was an American-born French singer and actor best known for his tough-guy roles in European cinema, particularly as secret agent Lemmy Caution.
  • 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_69b31a946ba88190bd40ba7481baf28d completed March 12, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b31c3b6c1c8190bc207b9809fa3eed completed March 12, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b31c912d888190a48c71f5210c1037 completed March 12, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.