Triple

T7530248
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Knots Landing E178002 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object James Houghton
James Houghton is an American actor best known for his role as Kenny Ward on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
E669481 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: James Houghton | Statement: [Knots Landing, starring, James Houghton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Houghton
Context triple: [Knots Landing, starring, James Houghton]
  • A. John Giffard
    John Giffard was a medieval nobleman and military figure associated with the construction and lordship of Carreg Cennen Castle in Wales.
  • B. Humphrey Wanley
    Humphrey Wanley was an English palaeographer, librarian, and antiquary renowned for his pioneering catalogues of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and his influential role in early 18th-century antiquarian scholarship.
  • C. Theodore de Mayerne
    Theodore de Mayerne was a prominent 17th-century Swiss-born physician and chemist who served as royal doctor in England and helped advance early modern medical and chemical practice.
  • D. William Smyth
    William Smyth was a prominent British historian and academic who became one of the leading figures in modern historical scholarship at the University of Cambridge.
  • E. William Smyth
    William Smyth was an English bishop and statesman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a significant role in the early Tudor church and educational reform.
  • 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: James Houghton
Triple: [Knots Landing, starring, James Houghton]
Generated description
James Houghton is an American actor best known for his role as Kenny Ward on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Houghton
Target entity description: James Houghton is an American actor best known for his role as Kenny Ward on the long-running prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing."
  • A. John Giffard
    John Giffard was a medieval nobleman and military figure associated with the construction and lordship of Carreg Cennen Castle in Wales.
  • B. Humphrey Wanley
    Humphrey Wanley was an English palaeographer, librarian, and antiquary renowned for his pioneering catalogues of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and his influential role in early 18th-century antiquarian scholarship.
  • C. Theodore de Mayerne
    Theodore de Mayerne was a prominent 17th-century Swiss-born physician and chemist who served as royal doctor in England and helped advance early modern medical and chemical practice.
  • D. William Smyth
    William Smyth was a prominent British historian and academic who became one of the leading figures in modern historical scholarship at the University of Cambridge.
  • E. William Smyth
    William Smyth was an English bishop and statesman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a significant role in the early Tudor church and educational reform.
  • 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.