Triple
T10339291
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Father Mulcahy |
E243086
|
entity |
| Predicate | portrayedBy |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Christopher
William Christopher was an American actor best known for playing the gentle and compassionate Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H.
|
E858202
|
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 Christopher | Statement: [Father Mulcahy, portrayedBy, William Christopher]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Christopher Context triple: [Father Mulcahy, portrayedBy, William Christopher]
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A.
William Arthur
William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
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B.
Charles Franklin
Charles Franklin is an American political scientist and pollster known for his work on public opinion, elections, and co-founding the polling aggregation site Pollster.com.
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C.
John Howard Stevens
John Howard Stevens was an American architect who worked in partnership with his father John Calvin Stevens, contributing to early 20th-century architectural projects in Maine.
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D.
William Davis
William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
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E.
William Davis
William Davis was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
- 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 Christopher Triple: [Father Mulcahy, portrayedBy, William Christopher]
Generated description
William Christopher was an American actor best known for playing the gentle and compassionate Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Christopher Target entity description: William Christopher was an American actor best known for playing the gentle and compassionate Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H.
-
A.
William Arthur
William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
-
B.
Charles Franklin
Charles Franklin is an American political scientist and pollster known for his work on public opinion, elections, and co-founding the polling aggregation site Pollster.com.
-
C.
John Howard Stevens
John Howard Stevens was an American architect who worked in partnership with his father John Calvin Stevens, contributing to early 20th-century architectural projects in Maine.
-
D.
William Davis
William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
-
E.
William Davis
William Davis was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
- 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_69d381af787481908bc401325c760a88 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4e0a470948190959f298dd6110bf3 |
completed | April 7, 2026, 10:47 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d7506a07888190b91e78247e81fe57 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d7618c9abc819080c4d6669dfb8320 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:21 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d7702ae24481908b0f5319413e81d4 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:23 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:54 a.m.