Triple
T6206495
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Floyd Lawson |
E138760
|
entity |
| Predicate | portrayedBy |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Howard McNear
Howard McNear was an American character actor best known for playing the genial barber Floyd Lawson on the classic television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
|
E577708
|
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: Howard McNear | Statement: [Floyd Lawson, portrayedBy, Howard McNear]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard McNear Context triple: [Floyd Lawson, portrayedBy, Howard McNear]
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A.
Fred Maynard
Fred Maynard was an early 20th-century Aboriginal Australian activist and leader who championed Indigenous rights, land justice, and self-determination.
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B.
Bob Wells
Bob Wells is a real-life van-dwelling nomad, YouTube personality, and advocate for alternative, minimalist living who appears as himself in the film "Nomadland."
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C.
Bob Wells
Bob Wells was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic holiday standard "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)."
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D.
Edward Earle
Edward Earle was a British-born American film and television actor active from the silent era through the mid-20th century.
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E.
Frank Howard
Frank Howard was a towering power-hitting outfielder and first baseman of the 1960s and early 1970s, best known for his prodigious home runs and multiple All-Star seasons in Major League Baseball.
- 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: Howard McNear Triple: [Floyd Lawson, portrayedBy, Howard McNear]
Generated description
Howard McNear was an American character actor best known for playing the genial barber Floyd Lawson on the classic television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard McNear Target entity description: Howard McNear was an American character actor best known for playing the genial barber Floyd Lawson on the classic television series "The Andy Griffith Show."
-
A.
Fred Maynard
Fred Maynard was an early 20th-century Aboriginal Australian activist and leader who championed Indigenous rights, land justice, and self-determination.
-
B.
Bob Wells
Bob Wells is a real-life van-dwelling nomad, YouTube personality, and advocate for alternative, minimalist living who appears as himself in the film "Nomadland."
-
C.
Bob Wells
Bob Wells was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic holiday standard "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)."
-
D.
Edward Earle
Edward Earle was a British-born American film and television actor active from the silent era through the mid-20th century.
-
E.
Frank Howard
Frank Howard was a towering power-hitting outfielder and first baseman of the 1960s and early 1970s, best known for his prodigious home runs and multiple All-Star seasons in Major League Baseball.
- 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_69c008acbea48190991c6b834bb45d65 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0626f85748190a94448117a85fd78 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:43 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c20d9def0481909dc252d8a0ace45e |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:05 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c2160f11dc8190b283fb6a7dfce491 |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:41 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c216b244dc8190b11bfdbb7fca703f |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:44 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:20 p.m.