Triple

T1180993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Beaver E25135 entity
Predicate characterPortrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Walter Black; Mel Gibson
Walter Black, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film "The Beaver," is a deeply depressed toy company executive who begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet as a coping mechanism.
E134611 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: Walter Black; Mel Gibson | Statement: [The Beaver, characterPortrayedBy, Walter Black; Mel Gibson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Black; Mel Gibson
Context triple: [The Beaver, characterPortrayedBy, Walter Black; Mel Gibson]
  • A. Timothy Black
    Timothy Black is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
  • B. Allan Black
    Allan Black is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized by the surname Black.
  • C. Walter
    Walter is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Galen Black
    Galen Black was one of the respondents in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Employment Division v. Smith, which addressed the limits of religious freedom protections under the First Amendment.
  • E. William Cage
    William Cage is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow," a military public relations officer who becomes caught in a time loop while fighting an alien invasion.
  • 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: Walter Black; Mel Gibson
Triple: [The Beaver, characterPortrayedBy, Walter Black; Mel Gibson]
Generated description
Walter Black, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film "The Beaver," is a deeply depressed toy company executive who begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet as a coping mechanism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Black; Mel Gibson
Target entity description: Walter Black, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film "The Beaver," is a deeply depressed toy company executive who begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet as a coping mechanism.
  • A. Timothy Black
    Timothy Black is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
  • B. Allan Black
    Allan Black is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized by the surname Black.
  • C. Walter
    Walter is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Galen Black
    Galen Black was one of the respondents in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Employment Division v. Smith, which addressed the limits of religious freedom protections under the First Amendment.
  • E. William Cage
    William Cage is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow," a military public relations officer who becomes caught in a time loop while fighting an alien invasion.
  • 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_69a494267b4c819088c97a59182bf56a completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd32c5f48190b4e2d39fa052cbb7 completed March 1, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac6f1f1c188190a96f5718c4e7d59d completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac6f9c0da48190b8d5615ba582366c completed March 7, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac7009b52c8190a6f6962cf60de92d completed March 7, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.