Triple

T1200159
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boys Town E25760 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Whitey Marsh
Whitey Marsh is the tough, streetwise orphan who becomes the central reformed youth in the classic 1938 film "Boys Town."
 E145499 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: Whitey Marsh | Statement: [Boys Town, mainCharacter, Whitey Marsh]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whitey Marsh
Context triple: [Boys Town, mainCharacter, Whitey Marsh]
  • A. Dick Howser
    Dick Howser was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to their first World Series championship in 1985.
  • B. Bumpy Johnson
    Bumpy Johnson was a notorious mid-20th-century Harlem crime boss known for his influence over the neighborhood’s underworld and connections to the Italian Mafia.
  • C. Hank O’Day
    Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
  • D. Curt Menefee
    Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
  • E. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • 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: Whitey Marsh
Triple: [Boys Town, mainCharacter, Whitey Marsh]
Generated description
Whitey Marsh is the tough, streetwise orphan who becomes the central reformed youth in the classic 1938 film "Boys Town."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whitey Marsh
Target entity description: Whitey Marsh is the tough, streetwise orphan who becomes the central reformed youth in the classic 1938 film "Boys Town."
  • A. Dick Howser
    Dick Howser was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to their first World Series championship in 1985.
  • B. Bumpy Johnson
    Bumpy Johnson was a notorious mid-20th-century Harlem crime boss known for his influence over the neighborhood’s underworld and connections to the Italian Mafia.
  • C. Hank O’Day
    Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
  • D. Curt Menefee
    Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
  • E. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd9ec3488190afe35af54efae5e9 completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac99775ca081909e4d8c81c40c277b completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9f0cc1708190877966c6cfdbd2ba completed March 7, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9f40269081909f45266cfa371888 completed March 7, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.