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*.
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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.
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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.