Triple

T6125158
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alice (TV series) E136577 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Mel Sharples
Mel Sharples is a gruff but good-hearted diner owner and cook from the sitcom "Alice," known for his no-nonsense attitude and catchphrase, "Stow it!"
E572310 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: Mel Sharples | Statement: [Alice (TV series), character, Mel Sharples]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mel Sharples
Context triple: [Alice (TV series), character, Mel Sharples]
  • A. Sprague Cleghorn
    Sprague Cleghorn was a rugged early-20th-century Canadian ice hockey defenseman renowned for his physical play and success in the National Hockey League.
  • B. Delos A. Blodgett
    Delos A. Blodgett was a 19th-century American lumber baron and philanthropist from Michigan, known for his significant role in the region’s timber industry and civic development.
  • C. P. M. Blodgett
    P. M. Blodgett was an early settler and prominent local figure in Oregon after whom the community of Blodgett was named.
  • D. Onslow Stevens
    Onslow Stevens was an American character actor active from the 1930s to the 1950s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films and early television productions.
  • E. Pat Choate
    Pat Choate is an American economist and policy analyst known for his work on trade and industrial policy and for running as Ross Perot’s Reform Party vice-presidential candidate in 1996.
  • 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: Mel Sharples
Triple: [Alice (TV series), character, Mel Sharples]
Generated description
Mel Sharples is a gruff but good-hearted diner owner and cook from the sitcom "Alice," known for his no-nonsense attitude and catchphrase, "Stow it!"
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mel Sharples
Target entity description: Mel Sharples is a gruff but good-hearted diner owner and cook from the sitcom "Alice," known for his no-nonsense attitude and catchphrase, "Stow it!"
  • A. Sprague Cleghorn
    Sprague Cleghorn was a rugged early-20th-century Canadian ice hockey defenseman renowned for his physical play and success in the National Hockey League.
  • B. Delos A. Blodgett
    Delos A. Blodgett was a 19th-century American lumber baron and philanthropist from Michigan, known for his significant role in the region’s timber industry and civic development.
  • C. P. M. Blodgett
    P. M. Blodgett was an early settler and prominent local figure in Oregon after whom the community of Blodgett was named.
  • D. Onslow Stevens
    Onslow Stevens was an American character actor active from the 1930s to the 1950s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films and early television productions.
  • E. Pat Choate
    Pat Choate is an American economist and policy analyst known for his work on trade and industrial policy and for running as Ross Perot’s Reform Party vice-presidential candidate in 1996.
  • 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_69c14165f3e88190903120d4b2ff6189 completed March 23, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c14399bdec81909753c30b36e8bf23 completed March 23, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c143fcb6208190a8a56c90e1d89f2b completed March 23, 2026, 1:45 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:14 p.m.