Triple

T4623241
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Fortune Cookie E101034 entity
Predicate characterPortrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Willie Gingrich – Walter Matthau
Willie Gingrich is the shrewd, fast-talking lawyer character played by Walter Matthau in the 1966 comedy film "The Fortune Cookie."
E456979 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: Willie Gingrich – Walter Matthau | Statement: [The Fortune Cookie, characterPortrayedBy, Willie Gingrich – Walter Matthau]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willie Gingrich – Walter Matthau
Context triple: [The Fortune Cookie, characterPortrayedBy, Willie Gingrich – Walter Matthau]
  • A. Don Adams
    Don Adams was an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart on the television series "Get Smart."
  • B. Grover Wolfe
    Grover Wolfe was the older brother of American novelist Thomas Wolfe, remembered primarily through his connection to the writer’s life and family background.
  • C. Ken Williams
    Ken Williams is an American baseball executive best known for building and overseeing the Chicago White Sox team that ended the franchise’s long championship drought with a World Series title in 2005.
  • D. Harry Carson
    Harry Carson is a Hall of Fame linebacker best known for anchoring the New York Giants’ defense in the late 1970s and 1980s and serving as a longtime team captain.
  • E. George Wallace (comedian)
    George Wallace is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his observational humor, long-running Las Vegas residency, and frequent television and film appearances.
  • 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: Willie Gingrich – Walter Matthau
Triple: [The Fortune Cookie, characterPortrayedBy, Willie Gingrich – Walter Matthau]
Generated description
Willie Gingrich is the shrewd, fast-talking lawyer character played by Walter Matthau in the 1966 comedy film "The Fortune Cookie."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willie Gingrich – Walter Matthau
Target entity description: Willie Gingrich is the shrewd, fast-talking lawyer character played by Walter Matthau in the 1966 comedy film "The Fortune Cookie."
  • A. Don Adams
    Don Adams was an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart on the television series "Get Smart."
  • B. Grover Wolfe
    Grover Wolfe was the older brother of American novelist Thomas Wolfe, remembered primarily through his connection to the writer’s life and family background.
  • C. Ken Williams
    Ken Williams is an American baseball executive best known for building and overseeing the Chicago White Sox team that ended the franchise’s long championship drought with a World Series title in 2005.
  • D. Harry Carson
    Harry Carson is a Hall of Fame linebacker best known for anchoring the New York Giants’ defense in the late 1970s and 1980s and serving as a longtime team captain.
  • E. George Wallace (comedian)
    George Wallace is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his observational humor, long-running Las Vegas residency, and frequent television and film appearances.
  • 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_69bd43d0497c8190ac23c65c5804846a completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a053d38819097b3ecbc06aa6e4d completed March 20, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfaa069388190b6482315708b85c2 completed March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb9422e48190819d5d99e72e8854 completed March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc6ac91c819090776365d3dc05d4 completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.