Triple

T6125151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alice (TV series) E136577 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Vic Tayback
Vic Tayback was an American actor best known for his Emmy-nominated role as the gruff but lovable diner owner Mel Sharples in the film and television versions of "Alice."
E570553 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: Vic Tayback | Statement: [Alice (TV series), starring, Vic Tayback]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vic Tayback
Context triple: [Alice (TV series), starring, Vic Tayback]
  • A. Vic Morrow
    Vic Morrow was an American actor best known for his role in the television series "Combat!" and for his tragic death in a helicopter accident during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie."
  • B. Gene Raymond
    Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
  • C. Robert Parrish
    Robert Parrish was an American film editor and director, as well as a former child actor, known for his work on several classic Hollywood films.
  • D. Michael Jace
    Michael Jace is an American actor best known for his role as LAPD Officer Julien Lowe on the television series "The Shield."
  • E. George Lindsey
    George Lindsey was an American actor and comedian best known for playing Goober Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" and its spin-offs, as well as for his voice work in animated films.
  • 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: Vic Tayback
Triple: [Alice (TV series), starring, Vic Tayback]
Generated description
Vic Tayback was an American actor best known for his Emmy-nominated role as the gruff but lovable diner owner Mel Sharples in the film and television versions of "Alice."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vic Tayback
Target entity description: Vic Tayback was an American actor best known for his Emmy-nominated role as the gruff but lovable diner owner Mel Sharples in the film and television versions of "Alice."
  • A. Vic Morrow
    Vic Morrow was an American actor best known for his role in the television series "Combat!" and for his tragic death in a helicopter accident during the filming of "Twilight Zone: The Movie."
  • B. Gene Raymond
    Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
  • C. Robert Parrish
    Robert Parrish was an American film editor and director, as well as a former child actor, known for his work on several classic Hollywood films.
  • D. Michael Jace
    Michael Jace is an American actor best known for his role as LAPD Officer Julien Lowe on the television series "The Shield."
  • E. George Lindsey
    George Lindsey was an American actor and comedian best known for playing Goober Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" and its spin-offs, as well as for his voice work in animated films.
  • 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_69c008a0a37c81908e5b4f879158afb3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05c2791948190ba33458edfd1ebe8 completed March 22, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c135b2500c8190aaf67b059ccbe3f1 completed March 23, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c13769a4bc81908d45d371e77f8d32 completed March 23, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c138247e2c8190b6c2aabbd36ad9c0 completed March 23, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:14 p.m.