Triple

T11253813
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shelley Berman E266386 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Sheldon Leonard Berman
Sheldon Leonard Berman, better known as Shelley Berman, was an American comedian, actor, writer, and pioneering stand-up performer famed for his observational, often neurotic monologues.
 E948615 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: Sheldon Leonard Berman | Statement: [Shelley Berman, birthName, Sheldon Leonard Berman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sheldon Leonard Berman
Context triple: [Shelley Berman, birthName, Sheldon Leonard Berman]
  • A. Sheldon Leonard
    Sheldon Leonard was an influential American actor, director, and television producer best known for shaping classic TV comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Leonard Gershe
    Leonard Gershe was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film musicals, including the screenplay for "Funny Face."
  • C. Jack Shulman
    Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
  • D. Sam Levene
    Sam Levene was a prominent American stage and film actor best known for his comic and character roles in mid-20th-century Broadway productions and Hollywood movies.
  • E. Leonard Goldberg
    Leonard Goldberg was an American television and film producer known for creating and overseeing numerous popular series and movies from the 1960s onward.
  • 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: Sheldon Leonard Berman
Triple: [Shelley Berman, birthName, Sheldon Leonard Berman]
Generated description
Sheldon Leonard Berman, better known as Shelley Berman, was an American comedian, actor, writer, and pioneering stand-up performer famed for his observational, often neurotic monologues.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sheldon Leonard Berman
Target entity description: Sheldon Leonard Berman, better known as Shelley Berman, was an American comedian, actor, writer, and pioneering stand-up performer famed for his observational, often neurotic monologues.
  • A. Sheldon Leonard
    Sheldon Leonard was an influential American actor, director, and television producer best known for shaping classic TV comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Leonard Gershe
    Leonard Gershe was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on stage and film musicals, including the screenplay for "Funny Face."
  • C. Jack Shulman
    Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
  • D. Sam Levene
    Sam Levene was a prominent American stage and film actor best known for his comic and character roles in mid-20th-century Broadway productions and Hollywood movies.
  • E. Leonard Goldberg
    Leonard Goldberg was an American television and film producer known for creating and overseeing numerous popular series and movies from the 1960s onward.
  • 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_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e9346f4c8190b29c2cf3a29cd1d1 completed April 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f12fa07fc081909a42f9c19ad38511 completed April 28, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f138b5f8988190a7ff95095eafd0b1 completed April 28, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f14e9b30a88190a054961a2f7fc80d completed April 29, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.