Triple

T6125152
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alice (TV series) E136577 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Beth Howland
Beth Howland was an American actress best known for her role as the high-strung waitress Vera Louise Gorman on the long-running sitcom "Alice."
E570554 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: Beth Howland | Statement: [Alice (TV series), starring, Beth Howland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beth Howland
Context triple: [Alice (TV series), starring, Beth Howland]
  • A. Hannah Howland
    Hannah Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
  • B. Cheryl Reeve
    Cheryl Reeve is a highly successful WNBA coach best known for leading the Minnesota Lynx to multiple league championships.
  • C. Kathy Auriemma
    Kathy Auriemma is the wife of legendary University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma and is known for her long-standing support and presence alongside him throughout his career.
  • D. Susan Silver
    Susan Silver is an American music manager best known for managing prominent Seattle grunge bands such as Soundgarden and Alice in Chains.
  • E. Wendy Harris
    Wendy Harris is a character known for being the mother figure in the context of the work in which she appears.
  • 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: Beth Howland
Triple: [Alice (TV series), starring, Beth Howland]
Generated description
Beth Howland was an American actress best known for her role as the high-strung waitress Vera Louise Gorman on the long-running sitcom "Alice."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beth Howland
Target entity description: Beth Howland was an American actress best known for her role as the high-strung waitress Vera Louise Gorman on the long-running sitcom "Alice."
  • A. Hannah Howland
    Hannah Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
  • B. Cheryl Reeve
    Cheryl Reeve is a highly successful WNBA coach best known for leading the Minnesota Lynx to multiple league championships.
  • C. Kathy Auriemma
    Kathy Auriemma is the wife of legendary University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma and is known for her long-standing support and presence alongside him throughout his career.
  • D. Susan Silver
    Susan Silver is an American music manager best known for managing prominent Seattle grunge bands such as Soundgarden and Alice in Chains.
  • E. Wendy Harris
    Wendy Harris is a character known for being the mother figure in the context of the work in which she appears.
  • 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.