Triple

T4625995
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donnie Brasco E101097 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Lefty Ruggiero
Lefty Ruggiero was a real-life New York mobster of the Bonanno crime family, famously portrayed in the film "Donnie Brasco" as the aging hitman who mentors the undercover FBI agent.
 E461678 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: Lefty Ruggiero | Statement: [Donnie Brasco, notableCharacter, Lefty Ruggiero]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lefty Ruggiero
Context triple: [Donnie Brasco, notableCharacter, Lefty Ruggiero]
  • A. Lenny Palmieri
    Lenny Palmieri is a minor supporting character in the period comedy-drama series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
  • B. Buddy Greco
    Buddy Greco was an American jazz and pop singer and pianist known for his smooth vocal style, big band performances, and long career as a nightclub entertainer.
  • C. Lou Lombardo
    Lou Lombardo was a film editor known for his work on notable movies including the romantic comedy-drama "Moonstruck."
  • D. Tony Canzoneri
    Tony Canzoneri was an American professional boxer and multiple-time world champion in the featherweight, lightweight, and junior welterweight divisions during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. Ray Ferraro
    Ray Ferraro is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player and prominent NHL broadcaster known for his long playing career and work as a television analyst.
  • 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: Lefty Ruggiero
Triple: [Donnie Brasco, notableCharacter, Lefty Ruggiero]
Generated description
Lefty Ruggiero was a real-life New York mobster of the Bonanno crime family, famously portrayed in the film "Donnie Brasco" as the aging hitman who mentors the undercover FBI agent.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lefty Ruggiero
Target entity description: Lefty Ruggiero was a real-life New York mobster of the Bonanno crime family, famously portrayed in the film "Donnie Brasco" as the aging hitman who mentors the undercover FBI agent.
  • A. Lenny Palmieri
    Lenny Palmieri is a minor supporting character in the period comedy-drama series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
  • B. Buddy Greco
    Buddy Greco was an American jazz and pop singer and pianist known for his smooth vocal style, big band performances, and long career as a nightclub entertainer.
  • C. Lou Lombardo
    Lou Lombardo was a film editor known for his work on notable movies including the romantic comedy-drama "Moonstruck."
  • D. Tony Canzoneri
    Tony Canzoneri was an American professional boxer and multiple-time world champion in the featherweight, lightweight, and junior welterweight divisions during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. Ray Ferraro
    Ray Ferraro is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player and prominent NHL broadcaster known for his long playing career and work as a television analyst.
  • 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_69bd5a0a7b588190bc6552ee5babb198 completed March 20, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be0360f7548190b4d1c2e0e53985e8 completed March 21, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be0440e7c881908743b7af9b2fa347 completed March 21, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be04e0f1b08190b3e617150e34648c completed March 21, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.