Triple

T4623404
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ball of Fire E101038 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
E492286 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: Dan Duryea | Statement: [Ball of Fire, starring, Dan Duryea]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Duryea
Context triple: [Ball of Fire, starring, Dan Duryea]
  • A. Richard Dix
    Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
  • B. Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
  • C. Lee J. Cobb
    Lee J. Cobb was an American character actor renowned for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in classics like "12 Angry Men" and "On the Waterfront."
  • D. John Forsythe
    John Forsythe was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Bachelor Father," "Dynasty," and as the voice of Charlie in "Charlie's Angels."
  • E. Edmond O'Brien
    Edmond O'Brien was an American character actor and Academy Award winner known for his intense, hard-boiled performances in film noir and classic Hollywood dramas.
  • 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: Dan Duryea
Triple: [Ball of Fire, starring, Dan Duryea]
Generated description
Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Duryea
Target entity description: Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
  • A. Richard Dix
    Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
  • B. Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
  • C. Lee J. Cobb
    Lee J. Cobb was an American character actor renowned for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in classics like "12 Angry Men" and "On the Waterfront."
  • D. John Forsythe
    John Forsythe was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Bachelor Father," "Dynasty," and as the voice of Charlie in "Charlie's Angels."
  • E. Edmond O'Brien
    Edmond O'Brien was an American character actor and Academy Award winner known for his intense, hard-boiled performances in film noir and classic Hollywood dramas.
  • 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_69beb0bc858c8190b70709f5ed743ee6 completed March 21, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beb29b48cc8190a91e2eee7582a535 completed March 21, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beb3635d508190bdec99a1a9202f50 completed March 21, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.