Triple

T3871388
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The X-Files E92392 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object William B. Davis
William B. Davis is a Canadian actor best known for playing the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man on the science fiction television series "The X-Files."
E889357 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 B. Davis | Statement: [The X-Files, portrayedBy, William B. Davis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William B. Davis
Context triple: [The X-Files, portrayedBy, William B. Davis]
  • A. George P. Davis
    George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
  • B. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • C. George W. Davis
    George W. Davis was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films.
  • D. John B. Gough
    John B. Gough was a 19th-century American orator and reformer renowned for his powerful speeches advocating abstinence from alcohol and promoting the temperance cause.
  • E. Floyd E. Kellam
    Floyd E. Kellam was a prominent local figure in Virginia Beach, likely a civic leader or educator, for whom Kellam High School was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • 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 B. Davis
Triple: [The X-Files, portrayedBy, William B. Davis]
Generated description
William B. Davis is a Canadian actor best known for playing the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man on the science fiction television series "The X-Files."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William B. Davis
Target entity description: William B. Davis is a Canadian actor best known for playing the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man on the science fiction television series "The X-Files."
  • A. George P. Davis
    George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
  • B. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • C. George W. Davis
    George W. Davis was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films.
  • D. John B. Gough
    John B. Gough was a 19th-century American orator and reformer renowned for his powerful speeches advocating abstinence from alcohol and promoting the temperance cause.
  • E. Floyd E. Kellam
    Floyd E. Kellam was a prominent local figure in Virginia Beach, likely a civic leader or educator, for whom Kellam High School was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • 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_69aed967448c819086c4b358d37b25aa completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec54b0848190a8d4a0e4df7b6227 completed March 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69deafff4b8c819099d47b48773c3629 completed April 14, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69dec2534728819095b3693120772da9 completed April 14, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69dec79b1b548190a74312284f98551c completed April 14, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:20 p.m.