Triple

T10954278
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ol' Man River E258802 entity
Predicate notablePerformer P17435 FINISHED
Object William Warfield
William Warfield was an acclaimed American bass-baritone concert singer and actor, renowned for his powerful performances in musical theater and spirituals.
 E903525 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: William Warfield | Statement: [Ol' Man River, notablePerformer, William Warfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Warfield
Context triple: [Ol' Man River, notablePerformer, William Warfield]
  • A. John Cullum
    John Cullum is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony Award–winning work on Broadway and his roles in film and television, including the series "Northern Exposure."
  • B. Raymond Massey
    Raymond Massey was a Canadian-American actor known for his commanding screen presence and memorable roles in classic films and stage productions.
  • C. Wendell Corey
    Wendell Corey was an American actor known for his supporting roles in classic films of the 1940s and 1950s and for his work in both film noir and mainstream Hollywood dramas.
  • D. William Cagney
    William Cagney was an American film producer and occasional actor, best known as the younger brother and frequent collaborator of Hollywood star James Cagney.
  • E. Lloyd Richards
    Lloyd Richards was a prominent Canadian-American theatre director and educator best known for championing African-American playwrights, including directing the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s "Fences."
  • 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: William Warfield
Triple: [Ol' Man River, notablePerformer, William Warfield]
Generated description
William Warfield was an acclaimed American bass-baritone concert singer and actor, renowned for his powerful performances in musical theater and spirituals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Warfield
Target entity description: William Warfield was an acclaimed American bass-baritone concert singer and actor, renowned for his powerful performances in musical theater and spirituals.
  • A. John Cullum
    John Cullum is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony Award–winning work on Broadway and his roles in film and television, including the series "Northern Exposure."
  • B. Raymond Massey
    Raymond Massey was a Canadian-American actor known for his commanding screen presence and memorable roles in classic films and stage productions.
  • C. Wendell Corey
    Wendell Corey was an American actor known for his supporting roles in classic films of the 1940s and 1950s and for his work in both film noir and mainstream Hollywood dramas.
  • D. William Cagney
    William Cagney was an American film producer and occasional actor, best known as the younger brother and frequent collaborator of Hollywood star James Cagney.
  • E. Lloyd Richards
    Lloyd Richards was a prominent Canadian-American theatre director and educator best known for championing African-American playwrights, including directing the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s "Fences."
  • 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_69d6aa88500c819097d7032ca578e74f completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d770ff718c81909d4baebea3b56b83 completed April 9, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e6fd11b08190b587bebf9586f754 completed April 18, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f2c889dc81909a04c1db0509e3d9 completed April 18, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f4746dbc8190a0e28202ad5e6b4f completed April 18, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:23 p.m.