Triple

T3672656
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ghostbusters E77914 entity
Predicate hasCastMember P2308 FINISHED
Object William Atherton
William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
 E426286 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: William Atherton | Statement: [Ghostbusters, hasCastMember, William Atherton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Atherton
Context triple: [Ghostbusters, hasCastMember, William Atherton]
  • A. John Ashton
    John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
  • B. John Brierley
    John Brierley is the real-life Australian man whose childhood journey from India to adoption and later search for his birth family inspired the book and film "Lion."
  • C. Philip Pugh
    Philip Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Pugh.
  • D. Joseph Durkan
    Joseph Durkan is a notable individual who shares the Durkan surname, recognized enough to be specifically identified among its bearers.
  • E. Richard Pryce
    Richard Pryce was a British novelist and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his socially observant fiction and contributions to Victorian and Edwardian literature.
  • 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: William Atherton
Triple: [Ghostbusters, hasCastMember, William Atherton]
Generated description
William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Atherton
Target entity description: William Atherton is an American character actor best known for playing arrogant and antagonistic authority figures in films such as Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
  • A. John Ashton
    John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
  • B. John Brierley
    John Brierley is the real-life Australian man whose childhood journey from India to adoption and later search for his birth family inspired the book and film "Lion."
  • C. Philip Pugh
    Philip Pugh is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Pugh.
  • D. Joseph Durkan
    Joseph Durkan is a notable individual who shares the Durkan surname, recognized enough to be specifically identified among its bearers.
  • E. Richard Pryce
    Richard Pryce was a British novelist and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his socially observant fiction and contributions to Victorian and Edwardian literature.
  • 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc42f82548190b4d5f0fe7250decb completed March 8, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5b7446bf88190848eb7ecb0e067bd completed March 14, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5b870a66c8190a59bfc0e99234596 completed March 14, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5b908fad88190846278c782a10cdb completed March 14, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.