Triple

T10751072
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Boys in the Band E253571 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Frederick Combs
Frederick Combs was an American actor and playwright best known for his role in the groundbreaking gay-themed play and film "The Boys in the Band."
E897616 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: Frederick Combs | Statement: [The Boys in the Band, castMember, Frederick Combs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Combs
Context triple: [The Boys in the Band, castMember, Frederick Combs]
  • A. Frederick Mills
    Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
  • B. Frederick Dryer
    Frederick Dryer is an American mechanical engineer and combustion scientist recognized for his pioneering research in fuel chemistry and combustion processes, for which he received the Global Energy Prize.
  • C. Frederick Crane
    Frederick Crane is the son of psychiatrist Frasier Crane in the television series "Frasier" and its related "Cheers" universe.
  • D. Frederick Miller
    Frederick Miller was a 19th-century German-American brewer and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • E. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Frederick Combs
Triple: [The Boys in the Band, castMember, Frederick Combs]
Generated description
Frederick Combs was an American actor and playwright best known for his role in the groundbreaking gay-themed play and film "The Boys in the Band."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Combs
Target entity description: Frederick Combs was an American actor and playwright best known for his role in the groundbreaking gay-themed play and film "The Boys in the Band."
  • A. Frederick Mills
    Frederick Mills was a person significant enough in local or regional history that Mills County, Iowa, was named in his honor.
  • B. Frederick Dryer
    Frederick Dryer is an American mechanical engineer and combustion scientist recognized for his pioneering research in fuel chemistry and combustion processes, for which he received the Global Energy Prize.
  • C. Frederick Crane
    Frederick Crane is the son of psychiatrist Frasier Crane in the television series "Frasier" and its related "Cheers" universe.
  • D. Frederick Miller
    Frederick Miller was a 19th-century German-American brewer and entrepreneur best known for establishing the Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • E. Frederic McLaughlin
    Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d6aa5e51e8819095f06881cecf152e completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d71dc0ad188190b747bf9d10cf5de5 completed April 9, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e343ffc428819085599f251b7553e5 completed April 18, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e34fb556648190909c403f5b7709f2 completed April 18, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e358f860f08190bfd10519ff3806aa completed April 18, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:15 p.m.