Triple

T5042814
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Outsider (1961 film) E113584 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Robert F. Simon
Robert F. Simon was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying authority figures such as military officers and executives.
 E489004 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: Robert F. Simon | Statement: [The Outsider (1961 film), castMember, Robert F. Simon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert F. Simon
Context triple: [The Outsider (1961 film), castMember, Robert F. Simon]
  • A. Robert E. Simon Jr.
    Robert E. Simon Jr. was an American real estate developer best known for creating the planned community of Reston, Virginia, one of the first modern postwar new towns in the United States.
  • B. Richard L. Simon
    Richard L. Simon was an American publisher and co-founder of the major publishing house Simon & Schuster.
  • C. Robert D. Siegel
    Robert D. Siegel is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing character-driven dramas such as the film "The Wrestler."
  • D. Louis D. Rubin Jr.
    Louis D. Rubin Jr. was an influential American literary critic, scholar, and publisher best known for his pioneering work on Southern literature and for co-founding Algonquin Books.
  • E. Bernard M. Gordon
    Bernard M. Gordon is an American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist known for pioneering work in high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and for major contributions to engineering education.
  • 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: Robert F. Simon
Triple: [The Outsider (1961 film), castMember, Robert F. Simon]
Generated description
Robert F. Simon was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying authority figures such as military officers and executives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert F. Simon
Target entity description: Robert F. Simon was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying authority figures such as military officers and executives.
  • A. Robert E. Simon Jr.
    Robert E. Simon Jr. was an American real estate developer best known for creating the planned community of Reston, Virginia, one of the first modern postwar new towns in the United States.
  • B. Richard L. Simon
    Richard L. Simon was an American publisher and co-founder of the major publishing house Simon & Schuster.
  • C. Robert D. Siegel
    Robert D. Siegel is an American screenwriter and director best known for writing character-driven dramas such as the film "The Wrestler."
  • D. Louis D. Rubin Jr.
    Louis D. Rubin Jr. was an influential American literary critic, scholar, and publisher best known for his pioneering work on Southern literature and for co-founding Algonquin Books.
  • E. Bernard M. Gordon
    Bernard M. Gordon is an American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist known for pioneering work in high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and for major contributions to engineering education.
  • 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_69bd44391fc48190a311ce9c826c209b completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd73df8f7481909a8b86c4ae69aab9 completed March 20, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9c87455081908b759eed55730503 completed March 21, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9fc4f8bc8190a21c828ea5cb9529 completed March 21, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea026f1008190861990c7a330222e completed March 21, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.