Triple

T10891162
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour E257176 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Dick Smothers
Dick Smothers is an American comedian, musician, and actor best known as one half of the Smothers Brothers duo, whose satirical and musical performances gained prominence in the 1960s.
E893275 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: Dick Smothers | Statement: [The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, starring, Dick Smothers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dick Smothers
Context triple: [The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, starring, Dick Smothers]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Smothers Brothers
    The Smothers Brothers were an American folk-comedy duo known for their musical satire and politically charged television performances in the 1960s.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Dick Smothers
Triple: [The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, starring, Dick Smothers]
Generated description
Dick Smothers is an American comedian, musician, and actor best known as one half of the Smothers Brothers duo, whose satirical and musical performances gained prominence in the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dick Smothers
Target entity description: Dick Smothers is an American comedian, musician, and actor best known as one half of the Smothers Brothers duo, whose satirical and musical performances gained prominence in the 1960s.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Smothers Brothers
    The Smothers Brothers were an American folk-comedy duo known for their musical satire and politically charged television performances in the 1960s.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69e2169ea02c8190addf125ec5adafe8 completed April 17, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e21d860d288190855ffbe60df50df9 completed April 17, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e21f09be508190a7c497a7680cb59e completed April 17, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:21 p.m.