Triple

T4555888
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson E120475 entity
Predicate spouseInSeries P13 FINISHED
Object Fritz Howard
Fritz Howard is a fictional FBI agent-turned-LAPD Deputy Chief on the TV series "The Closer" and its spinoff "Major Crimes," known for his professional integrity and close partnership with Brenda Leigh Johnson.
E453272 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Fritz Howard | Statement: [Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, spouseInSeries, Fritz Howard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fritz Howard
Context triple: [Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, spouseInSeries, Fritz Howard]
  • A. Frank Oliver Howard
    Frank Oliver Howard is the full name of Frank Howard, a notable American Major League Baseball slugger and outfielder/first baseman who played primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • B. Frank E. Bunts
    Frank E. Bunts was an American physician and surgeon best known as one of the founding doctors of the Cleveland Clinic, a major academic medical center.
  • C. William Hornbeck
    William Hornbeck was an influential American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for helping to shape modern editing techniques.
  • D. Fred A. Hartley Jr.
    Fred A. Hartley Jr. was an American Republican congressman best known for co-sponsoring the landmark 1947 labor law that restricted the power of labor unions.
  • E. Herschel Daugherty
    Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
  • 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: Fritz Howard
Triple: [Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, spouseInSeries, Fritz Howard]
Generated description
Fritz Howard is a fictional FBI agent-turned-LAPD Deputy Chief on the TV series "The Closer" and its spinoff "Major Crimes," known for his professional integrity and close partnership with Brenda Leigh Johnson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fritz Howard
Target entity description: Fritz Howard is a fictional FBI agent-turned-LAPD Deputy Chief on the TV series "The Closer" and its spinoff "Major Crimes," known for his professional integrity and close partnership with Brenda Leigh Johnson.
  • A. Frank Oliver Howard
    Frank Oliver Howard is the full name of Frank Howard, a notable American Major League Baseball slugger and outfielder/first baseman who played primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s.
  • B. Frank E. Bunts
    Frank E. Bunts was an American physician and surgeon best known as one of the founding doctors of the Cleveland Clinic, a major academic medical center.
  • C. William Hornbeck
    William Hornbeck was an influential American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for helping to shape modern editing techniques.
  • D. Fred A. Hartley Jr.
    Fred A. Hartley Jr. was an American Republican congressman best known for co-sponsoring the landmark 1947 labor law that restricted the power of labor unions.
  • E. Herschel Daugherty
    Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: spouseInSeries
Context triple: [Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, spouseInSeries, Fritz Howard]
  • A. spouseAssociatedWith
    Indicates a marital or spousal relationship or close association between two entities.
  • B. hasSpouseInStory
    Indicates that one entity is depicted as the spouse of another within the context of a particular story or narrative.
  • C. spouseOfHead
    Indicates that one person is the married partner of the individual who holds the position of head (e.g., head of a household, organization, or state).
  • D. spouseFamily
    Indicates a family relationship formed through marriage, such as between a person and their spouse’s relatives.
  • E. spouse chosen
    Indicates that two entities are married to each other in a legally or socially recognized partnership.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69bd4636f1648190a701445c2fcd9c17 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5814f56c8190a65f61f6148b7e5a completed March 20, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdd3a139f08190a0211d5848ccdfad completed March 20, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdd45654a48190a2e0e39a15991e80 completed March 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdd4a6ec948190a0da6094ecf0e6d7 completed March 20, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69bd5223423c81908317351b58cff5f5 completed March 20, 2026, 1:56 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.