Triple

T5108432
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jim Beaver E115155 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object James Norman Beaver Jr.
James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor and writer best known for his role as Bobby Singer on the television series "Supernatural."
 E493620 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: James Norman Beaver Jr. | Statement: [Jim Beaver, birthName, James Norman Beaver Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Norman Beaver Jr.
Context triple: [Jim Beaver, birthName, James Norman Beaver Jr.]
  • A. Thomas Fishburn
    Thomas Fishburn was an 18th-century British shipbuilder known for constructing the vessel that later became Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
  • B. David Nelson
    David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
  • C. David Nelson
    David Nelson is a prominent British architect and senior partner at Foster + Partners, known for leading major international architectural and urban design projects.
  • D. David Nelson
    David Nelson is an American poet and performer best known as an early member of The Last Poets, a pioneering group in politically charged spoken word and proto-rap.
  • E. Edgar Bethune Ward
    Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
  • 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: James Norman Beaver Jr.
Triple: [Jim Beaver, birthName, James Norman Beaver Jr.]
Generated description
James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor and writer best known for his role as Bobby Singer on the television series "Supernatural."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Norman Beaver Jr.
Target entity description: James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor and writer best known for his role as Bobby Singer on the television series "Supernatural."
  • A. Thomas Fishburn
    Thomas Fishburn was an 18th-century British shipbuilder known for constructing the vessel that later became Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
  • B. David Nelson
    David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
  • C. David Nelson
    David Nelson is a prominent British architect and senior partner at Foster + Partners, known for leading major international architectural and urban design projects.
  • D. David Nelson
    David Nelson is an American poet and performer best known as an early member of The Last Poets, a pioneering group in politically charged spoken word and proto-rap.
  • E. Edgar Bethune Ward
    Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
  • 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_69bd4440b3348190be1251fd8b7951f1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd75aa6b088190b02cdb66ec4a11f0 completed March 20, 2026, 4:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beba9ec0fc819085dcd1d27f46f377 completed March 21, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bebb427ee0819090cc2a7b12310719 completed March 21, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bebbbeaa98819099c8a376a30638d2 completed March 21, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.