Triple

T10943775
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cress Williams E258541 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Cress
Cress is an American actor best known for his leading role as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning in the television series "Black Lightning."
 E895500 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: Cress | Statement: [Cress Williams, givenName, Cress]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cress
Context triple: [Cress Williams, givenName, Cress]
  • A. The Plant
    The Plant is the nickname for Doncaster Works, a major historic railway engineering and locomotive-building facility in Doncaster, England.
  • B. Whiteleaf
    Whiteleaf is a small village and residential area on the outskirts of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England, known for its scenic Chiltern Hills setting and the nearby Whiteleaf Cross chalk hill figure.
  • C. The Cabbage
    The Cabbage is a colloquial nickname used by fans to refer to the Scottish football club Hibernian F.C.
  • D. Schildkraut
    Schildkraut is a surname most notably associated with Austrian-American actor Joseph Schildkraut, an Academy Award winner known for his work in early 20th-century film and theater.
  • E. The Clinging Vine
    The Clinging Vine is a 1926 silent comedy film starring Leatrice Joy as a supposedly meek woman who cleverly subverts expectations about femininity and independence.
  • 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: Cress
Triple: [Cress Williams, givenName, Cress]
Generated description
Cress is an American actor best known for his leading role as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning in the television series "Black Lightning."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cress
Target entity description: Cress is an American actor best known for his leading role as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning in the television series "Black Lightning."
  • A. The Plant
    The Plant is the nickname for Doncaster Works, a major historic railway engineering and locomotive-building facility in Doncaster, England.
  • B. Whiteleaf
    Whiteleaf is a small village and residential area on the outskirts of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England, known for its scenic Chiltern Hills setting and the nearby Whiteleaf Cross chalk hill figure.
  • C. The Cabbage
    The Cabbage is a colloquial nickname used by fans to refer to the Scottish football club Hibernian F.C.
  • D. Schildkraut
    Schildkraut is a surname most notably associated with Austrian-American actor Joseph Schildkraut, an Academy Award winner known for his work in early 20th-century film and theater.
  • E. The Clinging Vine
    The Clinging Vine is a 1926 silent comedy film starring Leatrice Joy as a supposedly meek woman who cleverly subverts expectations about femininity and independence.
  • 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_69d6aa8769b4819082bfe5e61b9017f0 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d770c3fb388190a598f89ae59a7b51 completed April 9, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e23c2dea008190af68336a096b7f7c completed April 17, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e24542b4f081909c97621f04da8ecc completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e248f7f96481909fa6e6cd07891566 completed April 17, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:23 p.m.