Triple

T3802897
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Goodman E91731 entity
Predicate characterPortrayed P1507 FINISHED
Object Walter Sobchak
Walter Sobchak is a volatile, Vietnam War–obsessed bowling enthusiast and best friend of the Dude in the cult film "The Big Lebowski."
E387610 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: Walter Sobchak | Statement: [John Goodman, characterPortrayed, Walter Sobchak]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Sobchak
Context triple: [John Goodman, characterPortrayed, Walter Sobchak]
  • A. Ben Harmon
    Ben Harmon is a troubled psychiatrist and family man whose personal failings and attempts at redemption drive much of the psychological and supernatural drama in American Horror Story: Murder House.
  • B. Randolph Driblette
    Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
  • C. David Puddy
    David Puddy is a deadpan, dim-witted auto mechanic and Elaine Benes’s on-again, off-again boyfriend on the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his monotone delivery and quirky obsessions.
  • D. Archie Bunker
    Archie Bunker is a fictional working-class, conservative New Yorker known for his bigoted yet often humorous views on social and political issues in the classic American sitcom "All in the Family."
  • E. Kid Gleason
    Kid Gleason was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball player and manager best known for leading the 1919 Chicago White Sox team involved in the Black Sox Scandal.
  • 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: Walter Sobchak
Triple: [John Goodman, characterPortrayed, Walter Sobchak]
Generated description
Walter Sobchak is a volatile, Vietnam War–obsessed bowling enthusiast and best friend of the Dude in the cult film "The Big Lebowski."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Sobchak
Target entity description: Walter Sobchak is a volatile, Vietnam War–obsessed bowling enthusiast and best friend of the Dude in the cult film "The Big Lebowski."
  • A. Ben Harmon
    Ben Harmon is a troubled psychiatrist and family man whose personal failings and attempts at redemption drive much of the psychological and supernatural drama in American Horror Story: Murder House.
  • B. Randolph Driblette
    Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
  • C. David Puddy
    David Puddy is a deadpan, dim-witted auto mechanic and Elaine Benes’s on-again, off-again boyfriend on the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his monotone delivery and quirky obsessions.
  • D. Archie Bunker
    Archie Bunker is a fictional working-class, conservative New Yorker known for his bigoted yet often humorous views on social and political issues in the classic American sitcom "All in the Family."
  • E. Kid Gleason
    Kid Gleason was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball player and manager best known for leading the 1919 Chicago White Sox team involved in the Black Sox Scandal.
  • 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_69aed96354f48190a768966d6bd19b04 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee7bacf2881908198a77063d15d16 completed March 9, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4f06889c88190ab4d8da7f0dfeadd completed March 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f0e77efc8190b4459d4559261a2f completed March 14, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f15cfde88190bcb2680b90f98111 completed March 14, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:15 p.m.