Triple

T11396206
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Favorite Martian E269978 entity
Predicate characterPortrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Tim O’Hara – Bill Bixby
Tim O’Hara, portrayed by Bill Bixby, is the curious and often flustered newspaper reporter who discovers and secretly shelters a stranded Martian in the classic 1960s sitcom "My Favorite Martian."
E923513 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: Tim O’Hara – Bill Bixby | Statement: [My Favorite Martian, characterPortrayedBy, Tim O’Hara – Bill Bixby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tim O’Hara – Bill Bixby
Context triple: [My Favorite Martian, characterPortrayedBy, Tim O’Hara – Bill Bixby]
  • A. Timothy Newhart
    Timothy Newhart is one of the children of American television personality and producer Ginny Newhart and comedian-actor Bob Newhart.
  • B. Fred Burns
    Fred Burns was an American actor known for his roles in early silent-era Westerns and adventure films.
  • C. Barry Bostwick
    Barry Bostwick is an American actor best known for his roles in the cult musical film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the sitcom "Spin City."
  • D. Darren McGavin
    Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and as the gruff but loving father in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
  • E. Jack Foley
    Jack Foley is a charming, sharp-witted career bank robber and the central antihero of Elmore Leonard’s crime novel "Out of Sight" and its film adaptation.
  • 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: Tim O’Hara – Bill Bixby
Triple: [My Favorite Martian, characterPortrayedBy, Tim O’Hara – Bill Bixby]
Generated description
Tim O’Hara, portrayed by Bill Bixby, is the curious and often flustered newspaper reporter who discovers and secretly shelters a stranded Martian in the classic 1960s sitcom "My Favorite Martian."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tim O’Hara – Bill Bixby
Target entity description: Tim O’Hara, portrayed by Bill Bixby, is the curious and often flustered newspaper reporter who discovers and secretly shelters a stranded Martian in the classic 1960s sitcom "My Favorite Martian."
  • A. Timothy Newhart
    Timothy Newhart is one of the children of American television personality and producer Ginny Newhart and comedian-actor Bob Newhart.
  • B. Fred Burns
    Fred Burns was an American actor known for his roles in early silent-era Westerns and adventure films.
  • C. Barry Bostwick
    Barry Bostwick is an American actor best known for his roles in the cult musical film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the sitcom "Spin City."
  • D. Darren McGavin
    Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and as the gruff but loving father in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
  • E. Jack Foley
    Jack Foley is a charming, sharp-witted career bank robber and the central antihero of Elmore Leonard’s crime novel "Out of Sight" and its film adaptation.
  • 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d80019d3d48190a2f473deb6eae33a completed April 9, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e58cd74280819092f8c420630f4889 completed April 20, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e59774e6648190a38b2515a83c2e0c completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5a3abf24481908fb71f4ef6b13532 completed April 20, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.