Triple

T4422945
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Comedy of Terrors E95143 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Waldo Trumbull
Waldo Trumbull is the unscrupulous, comically villainous undertaker portrayed by Vincent Price in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Comedy of Terrors."
E437332 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: Waldo Trumbull | Statement: [The Comedy of Terrors, character, Waldo Trumbull]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waldo Trumbull
Context triple: [The Comedy of Terrors, character, Waldo Trumbull]
  • A. John Buckman
    John Buckman is an American entrepreneur and founder of the online music platform Magnatune and the book-sharing website BookMooch, known for his advocacy of open content and alternative licensing models.
  • B. Godfrey Dewey
    Godfrey Dewey was an American organizer and winter sports advocate best known for directing the planning and execution of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
  • C. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • D. Edgar A. Joralemon
    Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
  • E. Ralph McLane
    Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
  • 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: Waldo Trumbull
Triple: [The Comedy of Terrors, character, Waldo Trumbull]
Generated description
Waldo Trumbull is the unscrupulous, comically villainous undertaker portrayed by Vincent Price in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Comedy of Terrors."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waldo Trumbull
Target entity description: Waldo Trumbull is the unscrupulous, comically villainous undertaker portrayed by Vincent Price in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Comedy of Terrors."
  • A. John Buckman
    John Buckman is an American entrepreneur and founder of the online music platform Magnatune and the book-sharing website BookMooch, known for his advocacy of open content and alternative licensing models.
  • B. Godfrey Dewey
    Godfrey Dewey was an American organizer and winter sports advocate best known for directing the planning and execution of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
  • C. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • D. Edgar A. Joralemon
    Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
  • E. Ralph McLane
    Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554b36a48190a475ac5474bed132 completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f62bbee48190bae8fc7b9cc29086 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f6b132a88190950cde007375965a completed March 15, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f7794d7081909eb494c2119eaee7 completed March 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.