Triple

T6019039
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southland E134017 entity
Predicate mainCastMember P5563 FINISHED
Object C. Thomas Howell
C. Thomas Howell is an American actor best known for his breakout role in "The Outsiders" and a long career in film and television spanning several decades.
E562139 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: C. Thomas Howell | Statement: [Southland, mainCastMember, C. Thomas Howell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. Thomas Howell
Context triple: [Southland, mainCastMember, C. Thomas Howell]
  • A. Paul Dooley
    Paul Dooley is an American character actor, writer, and comedian known for his roles in films such as "Breaking Away," "Sixteen Candles," and numerous television series.
  • B. Charlie Thomas
    Charlie Thomas was an American R&B singer best known as a longtime member and lead vocalist of the legendary vocal group The Drifters.
  • C. Roger E. Mosley
    Roger E. Mosley was an American actor best known for his role as helicopter pilot Theodore "T.C." Calvin on the television series "Magnum, P.I."
  • D. Jack B. Sowards
    Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • E. Jonathan Thomas
    Jonathan Thomas is best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed American playwright Edward Albee.
  • 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: C. Thomas Howell
Triple: [Southland, mainCastMember, C. Thomas Howell]
Generated description
C. Thomas Howell is an American actor best known for his breakout role in "The Outsiders" and a long career in film and television spanning several decades.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. Thomas Howell
Target entity description: C. Thomas Howell is an American actor best known for his breakout role in "The Outsiders" and a long career in film and television spanning several decades.
  • A. Paul Dooley
    Paul Dooley is an American character actor, writer, and comedian known for his roles in films such as "Breaking Away," "Sixteen Candles," and numerous television series.
  • B. Charlie Thomas
    Charlie Thomas was an American R&B singer best known as a longtime member and lead vocalist of the legendary vocal group The Drifters.
  • C. Roger E. Mosley
    Roger E. Mosley was an American actor best known for his role as helicopter pilot Theodore "T.C." Calvin on the television series "Magnum, P.I."
  • D. Jack B. Sowards
    Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • E. Jonathan Thomas
    Jonathan Thomas is best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed American playwright Edward Albee.
  • 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_69c008742a5c8190b9cb9c2787a3d8b3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04f8589d0819089ae7840461640f6 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c108be2170819084b4b940e52b0185 completed March 23, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c10abc9aa08190acf1ced6a8be322e completed March 23, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c10b5c118c8190aaf5461c40472022 completed March 23, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:07 p.m.