Triple

T8874330
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steve Cochran E211234 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Robert Alexander Cochran
Robert Alexander Cochran is the birth name of American film and television actor Steve Cochran, known for his tough-guy roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime dramas and Westerns.
E767265 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: Robert Alexander Cochran | Statement: [Steve Cochran, birthName, Robert Alexander Cochran]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Alexander Cochran
Context triple: [Steve Cochran, birthName, Robert Alexander Cochran]
  • A. Robert Cochran
    Robert Cochran is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator of the hit real-time action series "24."
  • B. Arthur Cochran
    Arthur Cochran is the central character of the television series "Perfect Harmony," portrayed as a former Princeton music professor who reluctantly leads a small-town church choir.
  • C. George Daniel Weaver
    George Daniel Weaver, better known as Buck Weaver, was an American third baseman for the Chicago White Sox and one of the players banned from Major League Baseball for life following the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
  • D. Walter Grady Roberts
    Walter Grady Roberts was an American actor and playwright best known as the father of actress Julia Roberts.
  • E. Anthony Berkeley Cox
    Anthony Berkeley Cox was a British crime writer and critic, best known for his influential detective novels and psychological thrillers written under the pen names Anthony Berkeley and Francis Iles.
  • 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: Robert Alexander Cochran
Triple: [Steve Cochran, birthName, Robert Alexander Cochran]
Generated description
Robert Alexander Cochran is the birth name of American film and television actor Steve Cochran, known for his tough-guy roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime dramas and Westerns.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Alexander Cochran
Target entity description: Robert Alexander Cochran is the birth name of American film and television actor Steve Cochran, known for his tough-guy roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood crime dramas and Westerns.
  • A. Robert Cochran
    Robert Cochran is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator of the hit real-time action series "24."
  • B. Arthur Cochran
    Arthur Cochran is the central character of the television series "Perfect Harmony," portrayed as a former Princeton music professor who reluctantly leads a small-town church choir.
  • C. George Daniel Weaver
    George Daniel Weaver, better known as Buck Weaver, was an American third baseman for the Chicago White Sox and one of the players banned from Major League Baseball for life following the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
  • D. Walter Grady Roberts
    Walter Grady Roberts was an American actor and playwright best known as the father of actress Julia Roberts.
  • E. Anthony Berkeley Cox
    Anthony Berkeley Cox was a British crime writer and critic, best known for his influential detective novels and psychological thrillers written under the pen names Anthony Berkeley and Francis Iles.
  • 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_69ca838e78748190934d82db3104f855 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc614451d081908804430a72d00edf completed April 1, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc1c641048190aabbc10f461099f4 completed April 3, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfc24b4fe481909b7c4f58b787a21e completed April 3, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfc33fbedc8190a8f04ec6f43891f0 completed April 3, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:52 p.m.