Triple

T4642953
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Reaping E101696 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object William Ragsdale
William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
 E577214 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: William Ragsdale | Statement: [The Reaping, starring, William Ragsdale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Ragsdale
Context triple: [The Reaping, starring, William Ragsdale]
  • A. Boyd Tinsley
    Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
  • B. Theodore Hickman
    Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • C. Charles Greenway
    Charles Greenway was a British businessman and industrialist best known for his leading role in developing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a precursor to BP.
  • D. John W. Aldridge
    John W. Aldridge was an American literary critic and professor known for his influential analyses of mid-20th-century American fiction and culture.
  • E. Paul Satterfield
    Paul Satterfield is a film professional known for his work as a sequence director on classic animated features such as Disney’s 1942 film "Bambi."
  • 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: William Ragsdale
Triple: [The Reaping, starring, William Ragsdale]
Generated description
William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Ragsdale
Target entity description: William Ragsdale is an American actor best known for his lead role in the 1985 horror-comedy film "Fright Night" and its sequel.
  • A. Boyd Tinsley
    Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
  • B. Theodore Hickman
    Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • C. Charles Greenway
    Charles Greenway was a British businessman and industrialist best known for his leading role in developing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a precursor to BP.
  • D. John W. Aldridge
    John W. Aldridge was an American literary critic and professor known for his influential analyses of mid-20th-century American fiction and culture.
  • E. Paul Satterfield
    Paul Satterfield is a film professional known for his work as a sequence director on classic animated features such as Disney’s 1942 film "Bambi."
  • 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_69bd43d3bc7c81908f81fcf380476b0f completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a93047c8190990c94fd5a57c867 completed March 20, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c20ce295f081909046cbc278ee6183 completed March 24, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c2126be31081908265f2c6cfe268dc completed March 24, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c213074e7881908281063e5e250906 completed March 24, 2026, 4:28 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:14 p.m.