Triple

T10891161
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour E257176 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Tom Smothers
Tom Smothers was an American comedian, musician, and television personality best known as half of the folk-comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, whose sharp political satire made them influential figures in 1960s American television.
E892250 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: Tom Smothers | Statement: [The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, starring, Tom Smothers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Smothers
Context triple: [The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, starring, Tom Smothers]
  • A. Mike Douglas
    Mike Douglas was an American singer and television talk show host best known for "The Mike Douglas Show," a popular daytime program that ran from the 1960s through the early 1980s.
  • B. Len Goodman
    Len Goodman was a British professional ballroom dancer and television personality best known as a long-serving head judge on popular dance competition shows.
  • C. Don Hartman
    Don Hartman was an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies and musicals in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Jack Paar
    Jack Paar was an influential American television host and comedian best known for transforming late-night TV during his tenure on The Tonight Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • E. Mel Allen
    Mel Allen was a legendary American sportscaster best known as the longtime voice of the New York Yankees and one of baseball’s most iconic broadcasters.
  • 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: Tom Smothers
Triple: [The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, starring, Tom Smothers]
Generated description
Tom Smothers was an American comedian, musician, and television personality best known as half of the folk-comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, whose sharp political satire made them influential figures in 1960s American television.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Smothers
Target entity description: Tom Smothers was an American comedian, musician, and television personality best known as half of the folk-comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, whose sharp political satire made them influential figures in 1960s American television.
  • A. Mike Douglas
    Mike Douglas was an American singer and television talk show host best known for "The Mike Douglas Show," a popular daytime program that ran from the 1960s through the early 1980s.
  • B. Len Goodman
    Len Goodman was a British professional ballroom dancer and television personality best known as a long-serving head judge on popular dance competition shows.
  • C. Don Hartman
    Don Hartman was an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies and musicals in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Jack Paar
    Jack Paar was an influential American television host and comedian best known for transforming late-night TV during his tenure on The Tonight Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • E. Mel Allen
    Mel Allen was a legendary American sportscaster best known as the longtime voice of the New York Yankees and one of baseball’s most iconic broadcasters.
  • 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_69d6aa8550c8819095508a2ed9acf3db completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7520550c4819081296546c8f534f1 completed April 9, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e1550d6b4081909483c5dfa6e85671 completed April 16, 2026, 9:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e17d3060888190b3801272835b939a completed April 17, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e1806bc1048190bcbff6f6d3d7da19 completed April 17, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:21 p.m.