Triple

T11990883
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dumbo (1941 film) E285400 entity
Predicate voiceCastMember P9616 FINISHED
Object Herman Bing
Herman Bing was a German-American character actor and voice artist known for his comic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and early 1940s.
E957374 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Herman Bing | Statement: [Dumbo (1941 film), voiceCastMember, Herman Bing]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman Bing
Context triple: [Dumbo (1941 film), voiceCastMember, Herman Bing]
  • A. Louis Lingg
    Louis Lingg was a German-born anarchist and labor activist best known as one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
  • B. Heinz Bennent
    Heinz Bennent was a German actor known for his nuanced performances in European cinema and television, including prominent roles in psychologically intense dramas.
  • C. Walter Heitz
    Walter Heitz was a German Wehrmacht general best known for commanding the VIII Army Corps and later the doomed German forces in Stalingrad during World War II.
  • D. Hiram Arvada Haskin
    Hiram Arvada Haskin was a 19th-century settler and early resident after whom the city of Arvada, Colorado, was named.
  • E. Michael Kanin
    Michael Kanin was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work in classic Hollywood films, often in collaboration with his wife, Fay Kanin.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman Bing
Target entity description: Herman Bing was a German-American character actor and voice artist known for his comic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and early 1940s.
  • A. Louis Lingg
    Louis Lingg was a German-born anarchist and labor activist best known as one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
  • B. Heinz Bennent
    Heinz Bennent was a German actor known for his nuanced performances in European cinema and television, including prominent roles in psychologically intense dramas.
  • C. Walter Heitz
    Walter Heitz was a German Wehrmacht general best known for commanding the VIII Army Corps and later the doomed German forces in Stalingrad during World War II.
  • D. Hiram Arvada Haskin
    Hiram Arvada Haskin was a 19th-century settler and early resident after whom the city of Arvada, Colorado, was named.
  • E. Michael Kanin
    Michael Kanin was an American screenwriter best known for his Academy Award–winning work in classic Hollywood films, often in collaboration with his wife, Fay Kanin.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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: Herman Bing
Triple: [Dumbo (1941 film), voiceCastMember, Herman Bing]
Generated description
Herman Bing was a German-American character actor and voice artist known for his comic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and early 1940s.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef elicitation completed
NER batch_69d903afe4388190a2cf2328e85adf9b ner completed
NED1 batch_69f47257911481909d6bd72535eefdbd ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_69f47e6b8234819087fa1c53406b5f62 ned_description completed
NEDg batch_69f47cb7f9b4819091e6df4b894359bb nedg completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.