Triple

T3988787
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carnivàle E86936 entity
Predicate executiveProducer P7225 FINISHED
Object William Schmidt
William Schmidt is a television producer and writer best known for his work as an executive producer on the HBO series "Carnivàle."
 E501366 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 Schmidt | Statement: [Carnivàle, executiveProducer, William Schmidt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Schmidt
Context triple: [Carnivàle, executiveProducer, William Schmidt]
  • A. William Steinkamp
    William Steinkamp is an American film editor known for his long-time collaboration with director Sydney Pollack and his work on several acclaimed Hollywood films.
  • B. Richard Riemerschmid
    Richard Riemerschmid was a pioneering German architect and designer associated with Jugendstil and early modernism, known for his influential role in uniting art, craft, and industry.
  • C. Thomas Ehrlich
    Thomas Ehrlich is an American legal scholar and academic administrator known for serving as president of Indiana University and for his work promoting civic engagement in higher education.
  • D. William Wendt
    William Wendt was a prominent American landscape painter celebrated as a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement.
  • E. Robert Ochsenfeld
    Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
  • 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 Schmidt
Triple: [Carnivàle, executiveProducer, William Schmidt]
Generated description
William Schmidt is a television producer and writer best known for his work as an executive producer on the HBO series "Carnivàle."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Schmidt
Target entity description: William Schmidt is a television producer and writer best known for his work as an executive producer on the HBO series "Carnivàle."
  • A. William Steinkamp
    William Steinkamp is an American film editor known for his long-time collaboration with director Sydney Pollack and his work on several acclaimed Hollywood films.
  • B. Richard Riemerschmid
    Richard Riemerschmid was a pioneering German architect and designer associated with Jugendstil and early modernism, known for his influential role in uniting art, craft, and industry.
  • C. Thomas Ehrlich
    Thomas Ehrlich is an American legal scholar and academic administrator known for serving as president of Indiana University and for his work promoting civic engagement in higher education.
  • D. William Wendt
    William Wendt was a prominent American landscape painter celebrated as a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement.
  • E. Robert Ochsenfeld
    Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
  • 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_69aed93fd9d4819085d3b2137d2346cb completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefa007344819099515fda367f7016 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bee05440cc8190b0ab8d0c0811899b completed March 21, 2026, 6:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bee60aff1081909a4b695bddd6a5f1 completed March 21, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bee6632d048190a8c793c288396a43 completed March 21, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:33 p.m.