Triple

T11995136
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon E285508 entity
Predicate notableHost P5272 FINISHED
Object Ed McMahon
Ed McMahon was an American television personality and announcer best known as Johnny Carson’s longtime sidekick on “The Tonight Show.”
E959293 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: Ed McMahon | Statement: [Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, notableHost, Ed McMahon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed McMahon
Context triple: [Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, notableHost, Ed McMahon]
  • A. Allen Ludden
    Allen Ludden was an American television personality and game show host best known for hosting the quiz show "Password."
  • B. John Carson
    John Carson is a fictional character appearing in the film "The Miracle Woman."
  • C. Hugh Downs
    Hugh Downs was a prominent American broadcaster and television host best known for his long-running roles on programs like NBC’s Today and ABC’s newsmagazine 20/20.
  • D. Jack Paar
    Jack Paar was an influential American television host and comedian best known for transforming late-night TV during his tenure on The Tonight Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • E. Johnny Carson
    Johnny Carson was a legendary American television host and comedian best known for his three-decade tenure as the host of NBC’s late-night talk show "The Tonight Show."
  • 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: Ed McMahon
Triple: [Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, notableHost, Ed McMahon]
Generated description
Ed McMahon was an American television personality and announcer best known as Johnny Carson’s longtime sidekick on “The Tonight Show.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed McMahon
Target entity description: Ed McMahon was an American television personality and announcer best known as Johnny Carson’s longtime sidekick on “The Tonight Show.”
  • A. Allen Ludden
    Allen Ludden was an American television personality and game show host best known for hosting the quiz show "Password."
  • B. John Carson
    John Carson is a fictional character appearing in the film "The Miracle Woman."
  • C. Hugh Downs
    Hugh Downs was a prominent American broadcaster and television host best known for his long-running roles on programs like NBC’s Today and ABC’s newsmagazine 20/20.
  • D. Jack Paar
    Jack Paar was an influential American television host and comedian best known for transforming late-night TV during his tenure on The Tonight Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  • E. Johnny Carson
    Johnny Carson was a legendary American television host and comedian best known for his three-decade tenure as the host of NBC’s late-night talk show "The Tonight Show."
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903b211688190bfe6dd15c3f96d2f completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f48ad06350819094180403858db172 completed May 1, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f48df7790c8190a8e79466f032e86d completed May 1, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f490dfe4e4819092d7494ba9b807db completed May 1, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.