Triple

T10199686
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jonathan Kimble Simmons E238849 entity
Predicate characterRole P268 FINISHED
Object Howard Silk in Counterpart
Howard Silk in Counterpart is the mild-mannered UN bureaucrat who discovers a parallel world and his hardened doppelgänger, driving the show's central espionage and identity conflicts.
E846851 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: Howard Silk in Counterpart | Statement: [Jonathan Kimble Simmons, characterRole, Howard Silk in Counterpart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Silk in Counterpart
Context triple: [Jonathan Kimble Simmons, characterRole, Howard Silk in Counterpart]
  • A. Chris DeWolfe
    Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
  • B. Sam Coulson
    Sam Coulson is an English rock guitarist best known for joining the progressive rock band Asia in the 2010s.
  • C. CIA officer Jacob Esterline
    Jacob Esterline was a senior CIA officer best known for helping plan and oversee covert Cold War operations, including the Bay of Pigs invasion.
  • D. Ross Malinger
    Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
  • E. Harold Finch
    Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
  • 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: Howard Silk in Counterpart
Triple: [Jonathan Kimble Simmons, characterRole, Howard Silk in Counterpart]
Generated description
Howard Silk in Counterpart is the mild-mannered UN bureaucrat who discovers a parallel world and his hardened doppelgänger, driving the show's central espionage and identity conflicts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Silk in Counterpart
Target entity description: Howard Silk in Counterpart is the mild-mannered UN bureaucrat who discovers a parallel world and his hardened doppelgänger, driving the show's central espionage and identity conflicts.
  • A. Chris DeWolfe
    Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
  • B. Sam Coulson
    Sam Coulson is an English rock guitarist best known for joining the progressive rock band Asia in the 2010s.
  • C. CIA officer Jacob Esterline
    Jacob Esterline was a senior CIA officer best known for helping plan and oversee covert Cold War operations, including the Bay of Pigs invasion.
  • D. Ross Malinger
    Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
  • E. Harold Finch
    Harold Finch is a reclusive billionaire software genius who secretly built a surveillance AI to prevent violent crimes in the TV series "Person of Interest."
  • 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_69ca84e1ea088190b38162e43d4cfa8f completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdee3dfa108190b2888385ef96de23 completed April 2, 2026, 4:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d317eca3f88190a47009be6f96977e completed April 6, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d319cb6e8c8190926bacedd18f5ded completed April 6, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d31a5417f48190ac4449b44b555320 completed April 6, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:14 p.m.