Triple

T5215649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cousin Itt E117745 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object John Franklin
John Franklin is an American actor best known for playing the diminutive, hair-covered Cousin Itt in film and television adaptations of The Addams Family.
 E503936 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: John Franklin | Statement: [Cousin Itt, portrayedBy, John Franklin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Franklin
Context triple: [Cousin Itt, portrayedBy, John Franklin]
  • A. John Franklin
    John Franklin was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer best known for his ill-fated expedition to chart the Northwest Passage.
  • B. Elisha Kent Kane
    Elisha Kent Kane was a 19th-century American Arctic explorer and naval surgeon best known for leading expeditions in search of the lost Franklin expedition.
  • C. James Clark Ross
    James Clark Ross was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer renowned for his Antarctic and Arctic expeditions, including the discovery of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.
  • D. James Nares
    James Nares was an 18th-century English composer and organist best known for his church music and service as a prominent royal chapel musician.
  • E. Nathaniel Palmer
    Nathaniel Palmer was a 19th-century American seal hunter and explorer often credited as one of the first people to sight the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • 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: John Franklin
Triple: [Cousin Itt, portrayedBy, John Franklin]
Generated description
John Franklin is an American actor best known for playing the diminutive, hair-covered Cousin Itt in film and television adaptations of The Addams Family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Franklin
Target entity description: John Franklin is an American actor best known for playing the diminutive, hair-covered Cousin Itt in film and television adaptations of The Addams Family.
  • A. John Franklin
    John Franklin was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer best known for his ill-fated expedition to chart the Northwest Passage.
  • B. Elisha Kent Kane
    Elisha Kent Kane was a 19th-century American Arctic explorer and naval surgeon best known for leading expeditions in search of the lost Franklin expedition.
  • C. James Clark Ross
    James Clark Ross was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer renowned for his Antarctic and Arctic expeditions, including the discovery of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.
  • D. James Nares
    James Nares was an 18th-century English composer and organist best known for his church music and service as a prominent royal chapel musician.
  • E. Nathaniel Palmer
    Nathaniel Palmer was a 19th-century American seal hunter and explorer often credited as one of the first people to sight the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • 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_69bd4464ba3c8190bc16b2ebbe42ddb0 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7a93fcc08190a1d2d025b4365d5a completed March 20, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beefe788f88190a2ac0673daafaab2 completed March 21, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef28b79588190a2f38f208c9e93de completed March 21, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef2e568ec8190b14d686508850b7c completed March 21, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:48 p.m.