Triple

T7581024
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Houseman E179484 entity
Predicate notableRole P22 FINISHED
Object Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. is the demanding, intellectually intimidating Harvard Law School contracts professor from "The Paper Chase," famously portrayed by John Houseman.
E675145 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: Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. | Statement: [John Houseman, notableRole, Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Context triple: [John Houseman, notableRole, Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.]
  • A. Robert B. Stearns
    Robert B. Stearns was an American financier best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.
  • B. Dean C. Worcester
    Dean C. Worcester was an American zoologist, ethnologist, and U.S. colonial official in the Philippines known for his influential and controversial role in shaping American policy and public perceptions of Filipinos during the early 20th century.
  • C. Kenneth L. Bowles
    Kenneth L. Bowles was an American computer scientist and educator best known for his pioneering work in software systems and programming environments at the University of California, San Diego.
  • D. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • E. John M. Fabian
    John M. Fabian is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer who flew as a mission specialist on early Space Shuttle flights in the 1980s.
  • 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: Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Triple: [John Houseman, notableRole, Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.]
Generated description
Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. is the demanding, intellectually intimidating Harvard Law School contracts professor from "The Paper Chase," famously portrayed by John Houseman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Target entity description: Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. is the demanding, intellectually intimidating Harvard Law School contracts professor from "The Paper Chase," famously portrayed by John Houseman.
  • A. Robert B. Stearns
    Robert B. Stearns was an American financier best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.
  • B. Dean C. Worcester
    Dean C. Worcester was an American zoologist, ethnologist, and U.S. colonial official in the Philippines known for his influential and controversial role in shaping American policy and public perceptions of Filipinos during the early 20th century.
  • C. Kenneth L. Bowles
    Kenneth L. Bowles was an American computer scientist and educator best known for his pioneering work in software systems and programming environments at the University of California, San Diego.
  • D. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • E. John M. Fabian
    John M. Fabian is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer who flew as a mission specialist on early Space Shuttle flights in the 1980s.
  • 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_69c69f327db881909a21ae3b156f8ded completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f97717048190b0ca1a74ed8a817e completed March 27, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c861735c7c81908e2c9fcbb1005ec3 completed March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c862677e008190928ac5b4a47906fc completed March 28, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8630fe8608190afc7b67d9a80240b completed March 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:52 p.m.