Triple

T3564622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Soul Plane E75414 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon was an American comedian and character actor best known for his eccentric, scene-stealing roles in films like the Friday series and numerous television comedies.
E369340 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: John Witherspoon | Statement: [Soul Plane, starring, John Witherspoon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Witherspoon
Context triple: [Soul Plane, starring, John Witherspoon]
  • A. John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and statesman who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and became a prominent political leader during the American Revolution.
  • B. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • C. Samuel Barron
    Samuel Barron was a United States Navy officer who played a prominent command role in early 19th-century Mediterranean operations against the Barbary States.
  • D. Richard Caswell
    Richard Caswell was an American Revolutionary leader who became the first governor of the state of North Carolina and played a key role in its early government.
  • E. Matthew Vassar
    Matthew Vassar was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for establishing Vassar College, one of the first higher-education institutions for women 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: John Witherspoon
Triple: [Soul Plane, starring, John Witherspoon]
Generated description
John Witherspoon was an American comedian and character actor best known for his eccentric, scene-stealing roles in films like the Friday series and numerous television comedies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Witherspoon
Target entity description: John Witherspoon was an American comedian and character actor best known for his eccentric, scene-stealing roles in films like the Friday series and numerous television comedies.
  • A. John Witherspoon
    John Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, and statesman who served as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and became a prominent political leader during the American Revolution.
  • B. William Caswell
    William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
  • C. Samuel Barron
    Samuel Barron was a United States Navy officer who played a prominent command role in early 19th-century Mediterranean operations against the Barbary States.
  • D. Richard Caswell
    Richard Caswell was an American Revolutionary leader who became the first governor of the state of North Carolina and played a key role in its early government.
  • E. Matthew Vassar
    Matthew Vassar was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist best known for establishing Vassar College, one of the first higher-education institutions for women 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_69ad85d512708190829c8b2d3a2ccfb8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc0a76c008190a2056b6d990776fe completed March 8, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3bba91d08819081a433c9f06a2c2b completed March 13, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3bda1e1ac819094ac613c0e55c048 completed March 13, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3f5adac0481908b9053585c317be0 completed March 13, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.