Triple

T7438460
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject ZaSu Pitts E171679 entity
Predicate notableCollaboration P8554 FINISHED
Object Thelma Todd
Thelma Todd was a popular American film actress and comedian of the late silent and early sound era, best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies and films with the Marx Brothers.
E664535 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: Thelma Todd | Statement: [ZaSu Pitts, notableCollaboration, Thelma Todd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thelma Todd
Context triple: [ZaSu Pitts, notableCollaboration, Thelma Todd]
  • A. Madolyn Smith
    Madolyn Smith is an American actress best known for her film and television roles in the 1980s, including prominent performances in comedies and dramas.
  • B. Madolyn Madden
    Madolyn Madden is a central character in the crime thriller film "The Departed," serving as a psychiatrist entangled in the lives of both a mole in the police and an undercover cop.
  • C. Louise Glaum
    Louise Glaum was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1910s and early 1920s, best known for her sophisticated "vamp" roles in melodramas.
  • D. Thelma Raye
    Thelma Raye was a British stage actress best known for being the first wife of acclaimed film actor Ronald Colman.
  • E. Frances Farmer
    Frances Farmer was an American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s whose turbulent life and struggles with mental illness later made her a symbol of Hollywood tragedy and institutional abuse.
  • 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: Thelma Todd
Triple: [ZaSu Pitts, notableCollaboration, Thelma Todd]
Generated description
Thelma Todd was a popular American film actress and comedian of the late silent and early sound era, best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies and films with the Marx Brothers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thelma Todd
Target entity description: Thelma Todd was a popular American film actress and comedian of the late silent and early sound era, best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies and films with the Marx Brothers.
  • A. Madolyn Smith
    Madolyn Smith is an American actress best known for her film and television roles in the 1980s, including prominent performances in comedies and dramas.
  • B. Madolyn Madden
    Madolyn Madden is a central character in the crime thriller film "The Departed," serving as a psychiatrist entangled in the lives of both a mole in the police and an undercover cop.
  • C. Louise Glaum
    Louise Glaum was a prominent American silent film actress of the 1910s and early 1920s, best known for her sophisticated "vamp" roles in melodramas.
  • D. Thelma Raye
    Thelma Raye was a British stage actress best known for being the first wife of acclaimed film actor Ronald Colman.
  • E. Frances Farmer
    Frances Farmer was an American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s whose turbulent life and struggles with mental illness later made her a symbol of Hollywood tragedy and institutional abuse.
  • 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_69c68a64228c8190affaec2a8127ce7b completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f34aa3388190ac300cf934042d78 completed March 27, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8278cd9cc8190b88767c1432b3007 completed March 28, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c828854f6c8190885afb60d789f9b9 completed March 28, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c82926c16c8190adf364f7b9d3c149 completed March 28, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:13 p.m.