Triple

T3643589
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mort Sahl E77244 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett is an American television talk-show host and comedian known for his intelligent, conversational interview style and engagement with leading cultural and political figures of the late 20th century.
 E376691 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: Dick Cavett | Statement: [Mort Sahl, influenced, Dick Cavett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dick Cavett
Context triple: [Mort Sahl, influenced, Dick Cavett]
  • A. Jack Paar
    Jack Paar was an influential American television host and comedian best known for transforming late-night TV during his tenure on The Tonight Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • B. Mike Wallace
    Mike Wallace was a prominent American broadcast journalist best known as a hard-hitting correspondent on the television news magazine "60 Minutes."
  • C. Ben Mankiewicz
    Ben Mankiewicz is an American television host and film critic best known as a longtime presenter and commentator on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
  • D. Matt Lauer
    Matt Lauer is an American television journalist and former longtime co-host of NBC's "Today" show.
  • E. Howard Cosell
    Howard Cosell was a famously outspoken and influential American sports broadcaster known for his distinctive voice, candid commentary, and major role in bringing personality-driven analysis to televised sports.
  • 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: Dick Cavett
Triple: [Mort Sahl, influenced, Dick Cavett]
Generated description
Dick Cavett is an American television talk-show host and comedian known for his intelligent, conversational interview style and engagement with leading cultural and political figures of the late 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Dick Cavett
Target entity description: Dick Cavett is an American television talk-show host and comedian known for his intelligent, conversational interview style and engagement with leading cultural and political figures of the late 20th century.
  • A. Jack Paar
    Jack Paar was an influential American television host and comedian best known for transforming late-night TV during his tenure on The Tonight Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • B. Mike Wallace
    Mike Wallace was a prominent American broadcast journalist best known as a hard-hitting correspondent on the television news magazine "60 Minutes."
  • C. Ben Mankiewicz
    Ben Mankiewicz is an American television host and film critic best known as a longtime presenter and commentator on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
  • D. Matt Lauer
    Matt Lauer is an American television journalist and former longtime co-host of NBC's "Today" show.
  • E. Howard Cosell
    Howard Cosell was a famously outspoken and influential American sports broadcaster known for his distinctive voice, candid commentary, and major role in bringing personality-driven analysis to televised sports.
  • 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_69ad85de1b988190a45f8dbfebc806fc completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc35acf2c81908f60168e93b773b1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b44f3207688190b8d93e2e833b15a0 completed March 13, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b453cdaae0819099c31056b7830d26 completed March 13, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b482dfdfc08190a20e58707368b573 completed March 13, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:24 p.m.