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]
  • 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
  • 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.