Triple

T4623405
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ball of Fire E101038 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Professor Bertram Potts
Professor Bertram Potts is the shy, pedantic linguistics professor and leading male character in the 1941 screwball comedy film "Ball of Fire."
E457001 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: Professor Bertram Potts | Statement: [Ball of Fire, character, Professor Bertram Potts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Bertram Potts
Context triple: [Ball of Fire, character, Professor Bertram Potts]
  • A. Clarence Odbody
    Clarence Odbody is the bumbling yet wise guardian angel in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," sent to help George Bailey understand the value of his life.
  • B. Charles Coulson
    Charles Coulson was a prominent British theoretical chemist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in quantum chemistry and for authoring the influential book "Valence."
  • C. Sir Cyril Hurcomb
    Sir Cyril Hurcomb was a senior British civil servant and transport administrator who became the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the early years of postwar nationalized transport.
  • D. Robert Morton
    Robert Morton is an American television producer best known for his work as executive producer of the late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman."
  • E. Walter Crickmer
    Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
  • 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: Professor Bertram Potts
Triple: [Ball of Fire, character, Professor Bertram Potts]
Generated description
Professor Bertram Potts is the shy, pedantic linguistics professor and leading male character in the 1941 screwball comedy film "Ball of Fire."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Bertram Potts
Target entity description: Professor Bertram Potts is the shy, pedantic linguistics professor and leading male character in the 1941 screwball comedy film "Ball of Fire."
  • A. Clarence Odbody
    Clarence Odbody is the bumbling yet wise guardian angel in the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life," sent to help George Bailey understand the value of his life.
  • B. Charles Coulson
    Charles Coulson was a prominent British theoretical chemist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in quantum chemistry and for authoring the influential book "Valence."
  • C. Sir Cyril Hurcomb
    Sir Cyril Hurcomb was a senior British civil servant and transport administrator who became the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the early years of postwar nationalized transport.
  • D. Robert Morton
    Robert Morton is an American television producer best known for his work as executive producer of the late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman."
  • E. Walter Crickmer
    Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
  • 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.