Triple

T7530239
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Knots Landing E178002 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Ted Shackelford
Ted Shackelford is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Gary Ewing on the television soap opera Knots Landing and its parent series Dallas.
E669477 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: Ted Shackelford | Statement: [Knots Landing, starring, Ted Shackelford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ted Shackelford
Context triple: [Knots Landing, starring, Ted Shackelford]
  • A. George Shively
    George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
  • B. K. T. McFarland
    K. T. McFarland is an American foreign policy analyst and former government official who served in senior national security roles, including in the Trump administration.
  • C. Roger Toothaker
    Roger Toothaker was a colonial New England healer and folk practitioner who became one of the accused during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • D. Kent L. Wakeford
    Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
  • E. Frank Shannon
    Frank Shannon was an Irish-American character actor best known for his roles in early 20th-century films and serials, particularly in science fiction and adventure genres.
  • 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: Ted Shackelford
Triple: [Knots Landing, starring, Ted Shackelford]
Generated description
Ted Shackelford is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Gary Ewing on the television soap opera Knots Landing and its parent series Dallas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ted Shackelford
Target entity description: Ted Shackelford is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Gary Ewing on the television soap opera Knots Landing and its parent series Dallas.
  • A. George Shively
    George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
  • B. K. T. McFarland
    K. T. McFarland is an American foreign policy analyst and former government official who served in senior national security roles, including in the Trump administration.
  • C. Roger Toothaker
    Roger Toothaker was a colonial New England healer and folk practitioner who became one of the accused during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • D. Kent L. Wakeford
    Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
  • E. Frank Shannon
    Frank Shannon was an Irish-American character actor best known for his roles in early 20th-century films and serials, particularly in science fiction and adventure genres.
  • 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_69c69f2acdbc8190b5a8320168c1d0ba completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f81fbd4c8190b8ffedf1dbbb43aa completed March 27, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8463e08ac8190abd4d19b58067233 completed March 28, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c846b326088190b93a32c70bcc97ca completed March 28, 2026, 9:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8479490688190bc56b5a21d779b18 completed March 28, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:47 p.m.