Triple

T11438982
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barry Corbin E271088 entity
Predicate playedCharacter P1507 FINISHED
Object Roscoe Brown
Roscoe Brown is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Barry Corbin, best known as the gruff yet affable local figure he plays in the television series "Northern Exposure."
E926632 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: Roscoe Brown | Statement: [Barry Corbin, playedCharacter, Roscoe Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roscoe Brown
Context triple: [Barry Corbin, playedCharacter, Roscoe Brown]
  • A. Roscoe Lee Browne
    Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director known for his rich, distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater.
  • B. Leroy Eldridge
    Leroy Eldridge is the given name of Eldridge Cleaver, a prominent American writer, activist, and early leader of the Black Panther Party.
  • C. Doaker Charles
    Doaker Charles is a central character in August Wilson’s drama "The Piano Lesson," serving as the pragmatic, steady uncle who helps mediate his family’s conflict over a treasured heirloom piano.
  • D. Lucky Thompson
    Lucky Thompson was an American jazz saxophonist known for his lyrical style and work in the bebop and hard bop eras.
  • E. Roscoe Babatunde
    Roscoe Babatunde is a flamboyant, politically outspoken young gay man of Nigerian descent in the 1980s London-set drama "It's a Sin," known for his defiance of homophobia and family expectations.
  • 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: Roscoe Brown
Triple: [Barry Corbin, playedCharacter, Roscoe Brown]
Generated description
Roscoe Brown is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Barry Corbin, best known as the gruff yet affable local figure he plays in the television series "Northern Exposure."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roscoe Brown
Target entity description: Roscoe Brown is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Barry Corbin, best known as the gruff yet affable local figure he plays in the television series "Northern Exposure."
  • A. Roscoe Lee Browne
    Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director known for his rich, distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater.
  • B. Leroy Eldridge
    Leroy Eldridge is the given name of Eldridge Cleaver, a prominent American writer, activist, and early leader of the Black Panther Party.
  • C. Doaker Charles
    Doaker Charles is a central character in August Wilson’s drama "The Piano Lesson," serving as the pragmatic, steady uncle who helps mediate his family’s conflict over a treasured heirloom piano.
  • D. Lucky Thompson
    Lucky Thompson was an American jazz saxophonist known for his lyrical style and work in the bebop and hard bop eras.
  • E. Roscoe Babatunde
    Roscoe Babatunde is a flamboyant, politically outspoken young gay man of Nigerian descent in the 1980s London-set drama "It's a Sin," known for his defiance of homophobia and family expectations.
  • 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_69d6aadeef688190874bcecd88b3dd9b completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8088711ec8190afae9f4d9f2a11ca completed April 9, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5d39554c48190969cc0ebd4dbc368 completed April 20, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5d91b047c81909ea4c7f114bfbba5 completed April 20, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5e2de4cd081908d30c44853565029 completed April 20, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.