Triple

T505465
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film) E10493 entity
Predicate starred P5563 FINISHED
Object Alan Hale Sr.
Alan Hale Sr. was an American character actor and director best known for his prolific career in Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, often playing hearty, larger-than-life supporting roles.
 E62656 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: Alan Hale Sr. | Statement: [The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film), starred, Alan Hale Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alan Hale Sr.
Context triple: [The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film), starred, Alan Hale Sr.]
  • A. Noah Beery
    Noah Beery was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his robust presence in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
  • B. Harold Lloyd
    Harold Lloyd was a pioneering American silent film comedian and actor, best known for his daredevil stunts and iconic horn-rimmed glasses in classic films like "Safety Last!".
  • C. John Gilbert
    John Gilbert was an 18th-century English engineer and land agent best known for his pioneering work on canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
    Charles "Buddy" Rogers was an American actor and musician best known as a popular leading man of the late silent and early sound film era, often called "America's Boyfriend."
  • E. Rance Howard
    Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
  • 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: Alan Hale Sr.
Triple: [The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film), starred, Alan Hale Sr.]
Generated description
Alan Hale Sr. was an American character actor and director best known for his prolific career in Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, often playing hearty, larger-than-life supporting roles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alan Hale Sr.
Target entity description: Alan Hale Sr. was an American character actor and director best known for his prolific career in Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s, often playing hearty, larger-than-life supporting roles.
  • A. Noah Beery
    Noah Beery was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his robust presence in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
  • B. Harold Lloyd
    Harold Lloyd was a pioneering American silent film comedian and actor, best known for his daredevil stunts and iconic horn-rimmed glasses in classic films like "Safety Last!".
  • C. John Gilbert
    John Gilbert was an 18th-century English engineer and land agent best known for his pioneering work on canal construction during the early Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
    Charles "Buddy" Rogers was an American actor and musician best known as a popular leading man of the late silent and early sound film era, often called "America's Boyfriend."
  • E. Rance Howard
    Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
  • 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f14b2acc8190818e8a53eac69c54 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a48a7d47cc8190be1741f95f967f25 completed March 1, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a48ae58a288190b4fa3e7a052477ca completed March 1, 2026, 6:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a48b35abe881909029c02557da0819 completed March 1, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.