Triple

T3621349
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Step Brothers E76733 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Dr. Robert Doback
Dr. Robert Doback is a fictional, long-suffering father figure and stepfather in the comedy film "Step Brothers," portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
 E385163 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: Dr. Robert Doback | Statement: [Step Brothers, character, Dr. Robert Doback]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dr. Robert Doback
Context triple: [Step Brothers, character, Dr. Robert Doback]
  • A. Dr. Robert B. Hayling
    Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
  • B. Dr. John Becker
    Dr. John Becker is the cynical, misanthropic Bronx doctor portrayed by Ted Danson in the sitcom "Becker."
  • C. Paul A. Marks
    Paul A. Marks was an influential American physician-scientist and cancer researcher who served as president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and helped shape modern cancer genetics and therapy.
  • D. Dr. William Block
    Dr. William Block is a character in the 2007 horror-action film "Planet Terror," portrayed as a morally corrupt physician entangled in the outbreak of a deadly infection.
  • E. Robert C. Post
    Robert C. Post is a prominent American legal scholar and constitutional law expert who has served as a professor and former dean of Yale Law School.
  • 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: Dr. Robert Doback
Triple: [Step Brothers, character, Dr. Robert Doback]
Generated description
Dr. Robert Doback is a fictional, long-suffering father figure and stepfather in the comedy film "Step Brothers," portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dr. Robert Doback
Target entity description: Dr. Robert Doback is a fictional, long-suffering father figure and stepfather in the comedy film "Step Brothers," portrayed by actor Richard Jenkins.
  • A. Dr. Robert B. Hayling
    Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
  • B. Dr. John Becker
    Dr. John Becker is the cynical, misanthropic Bronx doctor portrayed by Ted Danson in the sitcom "Becker."
  • C. Paul A. Marks
    Paul A. Marks was an influential American physician-scientist and cancer researcher who served as president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and helped shape modern cancer genetics and therapy.
  • D. Dr. William Block
    Dr. William Block is a character in the 2007 horror-action film "Planet Terror," portrayed as a morally corrupt physician entangled in the outbreak of a deadly infection.
  • E. Robert C. Post
    Robert C. Post is a prominent American legal scholar and constitutional law expert who has served as a professor and former dean of Yale Law School.
  • 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_69ad85dae2fc81908d1ceadbc6af0089 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc2b9aa608190a680b250ecf63156 completed March 8, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4daf8199481909fdeed33a4874b4b completed March 14, 2026, 3:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4decbc158819096c41c738c85f228 completed March 14, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4df26a7688190881bbd07e9226bf1 completed March 14, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.