Triple

T8766447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thank You for Smoking E208349 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Jeff Megall
Jeff Megall is a slick Hollywood super-agent in "Thank You for Smoking" who specializes in spinning controversial topics and product placement to the media’s advantage.
 E761713 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: Jeff Megall | Statement: [Thank You for Smoking, character, Jeff Megall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jeff Megall
Context triple: [Thank You for Smoking, character, Jeff Megall]
  • A. Ian Megibben
    Ian Megibben is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Finding Dory."
  • B. Michael Roberds
    Michael Roberds was a Canadian actor best known for playing Uncle Fester in the 1990s television adaptation of The Addams Family.
  • C. Greg Maffei
    Greg Maffei is an American business executive best known as the longtime president and CEO of Liberty Media, overseeing its diverse portfolio of media, communications, and entertainment assets.
  • D. Paul Merolla
    Paul Merolla is a neuroscientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Neuralink, the neurotechnology company developing brain–computer interfaces.
  • E. Jeffrey Fuller
    Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
  • 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: Jeff Megall
Triple: [Thank You for Smoking, character, Jeff Megall]
Generated description
Jeff Megall is a slick Hollywood super-agent in "Thank You for Smoking" who specializes in spinning controversial topics and product placement to the media’s advantage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jeff Megall
Target entity description: Jeff Megall is a slick Hollywood super-agent in "Thank You for Smoking" who specializes in spinning controversial topics and product placement to the media’s advantage.
  • A. Ian Megibben
    Ian Megibben is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Finding Dory."
  • B. Michael Roberds
    Michael Roberds was a Canadian actor best known for playing Uncle Fester in the 1990s television adaptation of The Addams Family.
  • C. Greg Maffei
    Greg Maffei is an American business executive best known as the longtime president and CEO of Liberty Media, overseeing its diverse portfolio of media, communications, and entertainment assets.
  • D. Paul Merolla
    Paul Merolla is a neuroscientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Neuralink, the neurotechnology company developing brain–computer interfaces.
  • E. Jeffrey Fuller
    Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
  • 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_69ca835df7e08190ac875664cca8f9ca completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5ee97fd0819087ef8fe14b37ae43 completed March 31, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf88e892688190ac1434598b3984b9 completed April 3, 2026, 9:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf8ab6c1a8819097b8a84902a10296 completed April 3, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf8bc521dc81908918b48a25f290bb completed April 3, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:41 p.m.