Triple

T8329469
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Any Which Way You Can E195038 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object William Smith
William Smith was an American character actor and bodybuilder best known for his tough-guy roles in film and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.
E725334 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 Smith | Statement: [Any Which Way You Can, starring, William Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith
Context triple: [Any Which Way You Can, starring, William Smith]
  • A. William Smith
    William Smith was a 19th-century American religious leader best known as a younger brother of Joseph Smith and an early apostle in the Latter Day Saint movement.
  • B. William Smith
    William Smith was the birth name of American character actor Franklyn Farnum, who appeared in numerous films and early television productions.
  • C. William Smith
    William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
  • D. William Smith
    William Smith was a British sealer and explorer credited with the early 19th-century discovery of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.
  • E. William Smith
    William Smith was a pioneering English geologist, often called the "Father of English Geology," known for creating the first nationwide geological map.
  • 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 Smith
Triple: [Any Which Way You Can, starring, William Smith]
Generated description
William Smith was an American character actor and bodybuilder best known for his tough-guy roles in film and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith
Target entity description: William Smith was an American character actor and bodybuilder best known for his tough-guy roles in film and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.
  • A. William Smith
    William Smith was the birth name of American character actor Franklyn Farnum, who appeared in numerous films and early television productions.
  • B. William Smith
    William Smith was a 19th-century American religious leader best known as a younger brother of Joseph Smith and an early apostle in the Latter Day Saint movement.
  • C. William Smith
    William Smith was the second husband of famed Broadway and film musical star Ethel Merman.
  • D. William Smith
    William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
  • E. William Smith
    William Smith was a pioneering English geologist, often called the "Father of English Geology," known for creating the first nationwide geological map.
  • 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_69ca82e87f2c8190bdb71ee29dfc642d completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7fb812508190aed8a283dacf712e completed March 31, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd95c2c36481909793e9cd0c28168a completed April 1, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdab60ec308190a9001f9235e556b4 completed April 1, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdb2e3457c8190a2d0cb6eeb81c9ef completed April 2, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:56 p.m.