Triple

T10647615
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject What's My Line? E250876 entity
Predicate announcer P7529 FINISHED
Object Hal Simms
Hal Simms was an American television and radio announcer best known for his work on numerous CBS programs during the mid-20th century.
 E878206 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: Hal Simms | Statement: [What's My Line?, announcer, Hal Simms]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hal Simms
Context triple: [What's My Line?, announcer, Hal Simms]
  • A. Ty Simpkins
    Ty Simpkins is an American actor known for his roles as a child and teen in major films such as the Insidious series, Iron Man 3, and Jurassic World.
  • B. Rod Tidwell
    Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
  • C. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • D. Charlie Smith
    Charlie Smith is a fictional protagonist featured as the central character in a narrative work.
  • E. Jerry Scoggins
    Jerry Scoggins was an American country and western singer best known for performing the theme song to the classic television sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies."
  • 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: Hal Simms
Triple: [What's My Line?, announcer, Hal Simms]
Generated description
Hal Simms was an American television and radio announcer best known for his work on numerous CBS programs during the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hal Simms
Target entity description: Hal Simms was an American television and radio announcer best known for his work on numerous CBS programs during the mid-20th century.
  • A. Ty Simpkins
    Ty Simpkins is an American actor known for his roles as a child and teen in major films such as the Insidious series, Iron Man 3, and Jurassic World.
  • B. Rod Tidwell
    Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
  • C. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • D. Charlie Smith
    Charlie Smith is a fictional protagonist featured as the central character in a narrative work.
  • E. Jerry Scoggins
    Jerry Scoggins was an American country and western singer best known for performing the theme song to the classic television sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies."
  • 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_69d6aa5a4c4881908f39be6efe5981e5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6dfe29b8081908eb13637e0475ba1 completed April 8, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d97a580d388190aea5edadd4afc0d1 completed April 10, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d97cc20448819094d650b9c1067dca completed April 10, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d97e0cda0c8190af5013b971b2ad3c completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:05 p.m.