Triple

T9801651
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tim Matheson E237850 entity
Predicate playedCharacter P1507 FINISHED
Object Eric "Otter" Stratton
Eric "Otter" Stratton is the charming, womanizing ladies’ man and prominent member of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in the comedy film *National Lampoon’s Animal House*.
E821719 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: Eric "Otter" Stratton | Statement: [Tim Matheson, playedCharacter, Eric "Otter" Stratton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric "Otter" Stratton
Context triple: [Tim Matheson, playedCharacter, Eric "Otter" Stratton]
  • A. David Stratton
    David Stratton is a prominent British-Australian film critic and historian best known for his long-running work on Australian television and his influential contributions to film culture.
  • B. Gil Stratton
    Gil Stratton was an American character actor and sportscaster known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, as well as his long career in Los Angeles sports broadcasting.
  • C. Brad Strickland
    Brad Strickland is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for his work on series such as "The Lewis Barnavelt" books and various media tie-in novels.
  • D. Jeff Ott
    Jeff Ott is an American punk musician and activist best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the influential East Bay punk band Crimpshrine.
  • E. Guy Weadick
    Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
  • 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: Eric "Otter" Stratton
Triple: [Tim Matheson, playedCharacter, Eric "Otter" Stratton]
Generated description
Eric "Otter" Stratton is the charming, womanizing ladies’ man and prominent member of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in the comedy film *National Lampoon’s Animal House*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric "Otter" Stratton
Target entity description: Eric "Otter" Stratton is the charming, womanizing ladies’ man and prominent member of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in the comedy film *National Lampoon’s Animal House*.
  • A. David Stratton
    David Stratton is a prominent British-Australian film critic and historian best known for his long-running work on Australian television and his influential contributions to film culture.
  • B. Gil Stratton
    Gil Stratton was an American character actor and sportscaster known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, as well as his long career in Los Angeles sports broadcasting.
  • C. Brad Strickland
    Brad Strickland is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for his work on series such as "The Lewis Barnavelt" books and various media tie-in novels.
  • D. Jeff Ott
    Jeff Ott is an American punk musician and activist best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the influential East Bay punk band Crimpshrine.
  • E. Guy Weadick
    Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
  • 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_69ca84dd4608819097ff4ed00feca280 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda62b41048190bcef70a7591830c6 completed April 1, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1c44edac48190a44fdfb858d0dbba completed April 5, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1c50af000819087d643cc41a6fcc8 completed April 5, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1c5d39b288190b276371591a86399 completed April 5, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:29 p.m.