Triple

T3859804
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hairspray E90106 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Wilbur Turnblad
Wilbur Turnblad is a kind-hearted, supportive joke-shop owner and the loving father of Tracy Turnblad in the musical "Hairspray."
E398652 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: Wilbur Turnblad | Statement: [Hairspray, hasCharacter, Wilbur Turnblad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilbur Turnblad
Context triple: [Hairspray, hasCharacter, Wilbur Turnblad]
  • A. Tracy Turnblad
    Tracy Turnblad is the optimistic, plus-sized teenage heroine of the musical "Hairspray," known for her love of dancing, her fight against racial segregation, and her role as an unlikely TV star in 1960s Baltimore.
  • B. Edna Turnblad
    Edna Turnblad is the shy, plus-sized mother of Tracy Turnblad who becomes a central, comedic, and ultimately empowering figure in the musical and film "Hairspray."
  • C. James Dooley
    James Dooley is a composer best known for creating dramatic, cinematic music often used in film, television, and trailer scores.
  • D. Dobie Gillis
    Dobie Gillis is a fictional American teenager best known as the charming, often lovestruck protagonist of Max Shulman’s stories and the 1950s–60s TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."
  • E. Marshall Flinkman
    Marshall Flinkman is a quirky, brilliant tech expert and gadget inventor from the television series "Alias," known for providing high-tech support to the show's spies.
  • 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: Wilbur Turnblad
Triple: [Hairspray, hasCharacter, Wilbur Turnblad]
Generated description
Wilbur Turnblad is a kind-hearted, supportive joke-shop owner and the loving father of Tracy Turnblad in the musical "Hairspray."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilbur Turnblad
Target entity description: Wilbur Turnblad is a kind-hearted, supportive joke-shop owner and the loving father of Tracy Turnblad in the musical "Hairspray."
  • A. Tracy Turnblad
    Tracy Turnblad is the optimistic, plus-sized teenage heroine of the musical "Hairspray," known for her love of dancing, her fight against racial segregation, and her role as an unlikely TV star in 1960s Baltimore.
  • B. Edna Turnblad
    Edna Turnblad is the shy, plus-sized mother of Tracy Turnblad who becomes a central, comedic, and ultimately empowering figure in the musical and film "Hairspray."
  • C. James Dooley
    James Dooley is a composer best known for creating dramatic, cinematic music often used in film, television, and trailer scores.
  • D. Dobie Gillis
    Dobie Gillis is a fictional American teenager best known as the charming, often lovestruck protagonist of Max Shulman’s stories and the 1950s–60s TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."
  • E. Marshall Flinkman
    Marshall Flinkman is a quirky, brilliant tech expert and gadget inventor from the television series "Alias," known for providing high-tech support to the show's spies.
  • 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_69aed95b3c088190a8f85d19e6070599 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec1ff39c8190b83a88abd840a0e3 completed March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5283ccf68819086c6349ceb71f099 completed March 14, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5295cbab88190900c2d899366d688 completed March 14, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b529c83a5481908e9179553271d23b completed March 14, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.