Triple

T4245730
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Searchers E95523 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Ken Curtis
Ken Curtis was an American actor and singer best known for playing Festus Haggen on the long-running television western "Gunsmoke."
 E423993 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: Ken Curtis | Statement: [The Searchers, starring, Ken Curtis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ken Curtis
Context triple: [The Searchers, starring, Ken Curtis]
  • A. Don Cannon
    Don Cannon is an American hip-hop record producer and DJ known for his influential work with artists like Jeezy, Lil Uzi Vert, and others in the Atlanta rap scene.
  • B. Bob McElwee
    Bob McElwee is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls and for his long, distinguished career in professional football officiating.
  • C. Ken Morrow
    Ken Morrow is an American former defenseman best known for winning gold with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and then capturing four consecutive Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders.
  • D. Dennis Awtrey
    Dennis Awtrey is a former American professional basketball center known for his defensive play and role as a key contributor on several NBA teams during the 1970s and early 1980s.
  • E. Roger E. Broggie
    Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
  • 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: Ken Curtis
Triple: [The Searchers, starring, Ken Curtis]
Generated description
Ken Curtis was an American actor and singer best known for playing Festus Haggen on the long-running television western "Gunsmoke."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ken Curtis
Target entity description: Ken Curtis was an American actor and singer best known for playing Festus Haggen on the long-running television western "Gunsmoke."
  • A. Don Cannon
    Don Cannon is an American hip-hop record producer and DJ known for his influential work with artists like Jeezy, Lil Uzi Vert, and others in the Atlanta rap scene.
  • B. Bob McElwee
    Bob McElwee is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls and for his long, distinguished career in professional football officiating.
  • C. Ken Morrow
    Ken Morrow is an American former defenseman best known for winning gold with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and then capturing four consecutive Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders.
  • D. Dennis Awtrey
    Dennis Awtrey is a former American professional basketball center known for his defensive play and role as a key contributor on several NBA teams during the 1970s and early 1980s.
  • E. Roger E. Broggie
    Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
  • 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_69b3453d91548190b4d4ef8fe52aa2ac completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34e8db5bc8190873c5ae3753aaa58 completed March 12, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5a87993648190b2969505cdf3c554 completed March 14, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5a966f154819083f7864b154f7518 completed March 14, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5aa0ed71c81908d9bf530b4557984 completed March 14, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:05 p.m.