Triple

T11572191
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tobin Bell E274416 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.
Joseph Henry Tobin Jr., better known as Tobin Bell, is an American actor most famous for portraying the serial killer John Kramer, also known as Jigsaw, in the "Saw" horror film franchise.
 E934104 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: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr. | Statement: [Tobin Bell, birthName, Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.
Context triple: [Tobin Bell, birthName, Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.]
  • A. Richard M. Linnehan
    Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • B. Conrad Bain
    Conrad Bain was a Canadian-American actor best known for playing the wealthy, kind-hearted father Philip Drummond on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes."
  • C. Jeff Tarpley
    Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
  • D. C. Douglas Dillon Jr.
    C. Douglas Dillon Jr. is the son of former U.S. Treasury Secretary and diplomat C. Douglas Dillon, belonging to the prominent Dillon family associated with American finance and public service.
  • E. C. Douglas Dillon
    C. Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • 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: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.
Triple: [Tobin Bell, birthName, Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.]
Generated description
Joseph Henry Tobin Jr., better known as Tobin Bell, is an American actor most famous for portraying the serial killer John Kramer, also known as Jigsaw, in the "Saw" horror film franchise.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.
Target entity description: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr., better known as Tobin Bell, is an American actor most famous for portraying the serial killer John Kramer, also known as Jigsaw, in the "Saw" horror film franchise.
  • A. Richard M. Linnehan
    Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • B. Conrad Bain
    Conrad Bain was a Canadian-American actor best known for playing the wealthy, kind-hearted father Philip Drummond on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes."
  • C. Jeff Tarpley
    Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
  • D. C. Douglas Dillon Jr.
    C. Douglas Dillon Jr. is the son of former U.S. Treasury Secretary and diplomat C. Douglas Dillon, belonging to the prominent Dillon family associated with American finance and public service.
  • E. C. Douglas Dillon
    C. Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • 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_69d6aae5ac3c81908d2b0a3a665665b2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d88dd6913881908becf188c0a7a275 completed April 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e6e8eface48190a2ed3275191b01ea completed April 21, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e6ef9631e48190aef47bba9ad611e8 completed April 21, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e6f94ac2d0819098a3024eaab908b5 completed April 21, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.