Triple

T7355018
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Trouble Man E169600 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object William Smithers
William Smithers is an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in 1970s crime dramas and the prime-time soap opera "Dallas."
E658654 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: William Smithers | Statement: [Trouble Man, starring, William Smithers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smithers
Context triple: [Trouble Man, starring, William Smithers]
  • A. Baldrick
    Baldrick is a dim-witted yet loyal servant best known from the British historical sitcom "Blackadder," famous for his disastrously bad "cunning plans."
  • B. Skimbleshanks
    Skimbleshanks is a fictional railway cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known from *Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats* and its musical adaptation *Cats*.
  • C. Bustopher Jones
    Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
  • D. Uncle Fred
    Uncle Fred is a mischievous, quick-witted aristocrat and recurring comic hero in P. G. Wodehouse’s humorous stories.
  • E. Groundskeeper Willie
    Groundskeeper Willie is the hot-tempered, heavily accented Scottish janitor and groundskeeper at Springfield Elementary School on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
  • 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: William Smithers
Triple: [Trouble Man, starring, William Smithers]
Generated description
William Smithers is an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in 1970s crime dramas and the prime-time soap opera "Dallas."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smithers
Target entity description: William Smithers is an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in 1970s crime dramas and the prime-time soap opera "Dallas."
  • A. Baldrick
    Baldrick is a dim-witted yet loyal servant best known from the British historical sitcom "Blackadder," famous for his disastrously bad "cunning plans."
  • B. Skimbleshanks
    Skimbleshanks is a fictional railway cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known from *Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats* and its musical adaptation *Cats*.
  • C. Bustopher Jones
    Bustopher Jones is a distinguished, portly cat from T. S. Eliot’s *Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats*, known for his impeccable manners, formal attire, and fondness for gentlemen’s clubs.
  • D. Uncle Fred
    Uncle Fred is a mischievous, quick-witted aristocrat and recurring comic hero in P. G. Wodehouse’s humorous stories.
  • E. Groundskeeper Willie
    Groundskeeper Willie is the hot-tempered, heavily accented Scottish janitor and groundskeeper at Springfield Elementary School on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
  • 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_69c68a59f2288190877ca15c19b1e822 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f10e71fc81909307ca39a61142d3 completed March 27, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7faa25960819084ecb6dbf9369ba5 completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7fc2c90488190bd3aa5bf72606723 completed March 28, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7fcb5f7f0819081e70f8809bb34ae completed March 28, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:05 p.m.