Triple

T10973568
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Myers E259308 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Don Shanks
Don Shanks is an American actor and stuntman best known to horror fans for playing the masked killer Michael Myers in the film "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers."
E896829 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: Don Shanks | Statement: [Michael Myers, portrayedBy, Don Shanks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Shanks
Context triple: [Michael Myers, portrayedBy, Don Shanks]
  • A. Sam Sharkey
    Sam Sharkey is a character associated with the American folklore surrounding the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
  • B. Hank O’Day
    Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
  • C. Skip Donahue
    Skip Donahue is one of the two hapless friends, played by Gene Wilder, who are wrongly imprisoned and get into comedic misadventures in the 1980 film "Stir Crazy."
  • D. Dwight McClusky
    Dwight McClusky is a brash, sensationalist television journalist and talk-show host in the satirical crime film "Natural Born Killers."
  • E. Johnny Pearson
    Johnny Pearson was a British composer, pianist, and bandleader best known for his prolific library music work and memorable television themes.
  • 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: Don Shanks
Triple: [Michael Myers, portrayedBy, Don Shanks]
Generated description
Don Shanks is an American actor and stuntman best known to horror fans for playing the masked killer Michael Myers in the film "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Shanks
Target entity description: Don Shanks is an American actor and stuntman best known to horror fans for playing the masked killer Michael Myers in the film "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers."
  • A. Sam Sharkey
    Sam Sharkey is a character associated with the American folklore surrounding the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan.
  • B. Hank O’Day
    Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
  • C. Skip Donahue
    Skip Donahue is one of the two hapless friends, played by Gene Wilder, who are wrongly imprisoned and get into comedic misadventures in the 1980 film "Stir Crazy."
  • D. Dwight McClusky
    Dwight McClusky is a brash, sensationalist television journalist and talk-show host in the satirical crime film "Natural Born Killers."
  • E. Johnny Pearson
    Johnny Pearson was a British composer, pianist, and bandleader best known for his prolific library music work and memorable television themes.
  • 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_69d6aa895f4c8190887a15460ef622f4 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7719c16648190ab5a87abb1c61990 completed April 9, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e2d7a0b3dc819084fbda3227caf5b5 completed April 18, 2026, 1 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e2ff211ae88190a40380cd25a61812 completed April 18, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e32634397481908284c04448274b25 completed April 18, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m.