Triple

T3759654
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Good Night, and Good Luck E82129 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Fred Friendly
Fred Friendly was a pioneering American broadcast journalist and television producer best known for his influential work with Edward R. Murrow and for helping shape the standards of modern TV news.
E387035 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: Fred Friendly | Statement: [Good Night, and Good Luck, character, Fred Friendly]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Friendly
Context triple: [Good Night, and Good Luck, character, Fred Friendly]
  • A. Glenn Fleshler
    Glenn Fleshler is an American character actor known for his intense and often menacing roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "True Detective," "Billions," and "Joker."
  • B. Bill Sackter
    Bill Sackter was a developmentally disabled man whose life story of institutionalization, friendship, and late-in-life independence became widely known through the film "Bill" and helped change public perceptions of people with disabilities.
  • C. Gus Schiff
    Gus Schiff is the son of American actor Richard Schiff, known for his role as Toby Ziegler on the television series "The West Wing."
  • D. Jerome Newman
    Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
  • E. Buddy Israel
    Buddy Israel is a Las Vegas magician-turned-mob informant whose decision to testify against the Mafia makes him the hunted focal point of the action film "Smokin' Aces."
  • 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: Fred Friendly
Triple: [Good Night, and Good Luck, character, Fred Friendly]
Generated description
Fred Friendly was a pioneering American broadcast journalist and television producer best known for his influential work with Edward R. Murrow and for helping shape the standards of modern TV news.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Friendly
Target entity description: Fred Friendly was a pioneering American broadcast journalist and television producer best known for his influential work with Edward R. Murrow and for helping shape the standards of modern TV news.
  • A. Glenn Fleshler
    Glenn Fleshler is an American character actor known for his intense and often menacing roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "True Detective," "Billions," and "Joker."
  • B. Bill Sackter
    Bill Sackter was a developmentally disabled man whose life story of institutionalization, friendship, and late-in-life independence became widely known through the film "Bill" and helped change public perceptions of people with disabilities.
  • C. Gus Schiff
    Gus Schiff is the son of American actor Richard Schiff, known for his role as Toby Ziegler on the television series "The West Wing."
  • D. Jerome Newman
    Jerome Newman was an American investor best known as the business partner of Benjamin Graham and co-founder of the influential Graham-Newman investment firm.
  • E. Buddy Israel
    Buddy Israel is a Las Vegas magician-turned-mob informant whose decision to testify against the Mafia makes him the hunted focal point of the action film "Smokin' Aces."
  • 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_69ad8b1db40081908b61ffa6b78afd4d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcbc3d3f48190974cec104080949f completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4e5133ba48190a18ea170e3b9e1cd completed March 14, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4e62d284881908531b93645649f45 completed March 14, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4ea2b19e48190864d2114603865ed completed March 14, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:35 p.m.