Triple

T12109792
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Matchmaker E288392 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Horace Vandergelder
Horace Vandergelder is a wealthy, cantankerous Yonkers merchant whose stubborn pursuit of marriage drives the comic misadventures in Thornton Wilder’s play "The Matchmaker."
E965682 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: Horace Vandergelder | Statement: [The Matchmaker, notableCharacter, Horace Vandergelder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Horace Vandergelder
Context triple: [The Matchmaker, notableCharacter, Horace Vandergelder]
  • A. Max Bialystock
    Max Bialystock is a flamboyant, down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and lovable con man who schemes to get rich by staging a guaranteed flop in Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers."
  • B. Ralph Uriah Hunsecker
    Ralph Uriah Hunsecker, better known as Ralph Blane, was an American composer and lyricist famed for co-writing classic songs for MGM musicals, including several standards from "Meet Me in St. Louis."
  • C. Mr. Mushnik
    Mr. Mushnik is the gruff, profit-driven owner of the struggling flower shop in the horror-comedy musical "Little Shop of Horrors."
  • D. Hyman Bloom
    Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his expressive, often mystical figurative works and his influential role in the mid-20th-century Boston Expressionist movement.
  • E. Joel Maisel
    Joel Maisel is a central character in the television series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," known as Miriam "Midge" Maisel's husband whose infidelity and failed comedy ambitions catalyze her journey into stand-up.
  • 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: Horace Vandergelder
Triple: [The Matchmaker, notableCharacter, Horace Vandergelder]
Generated description
Horace Vandergelder is a wealthy, cantankerous Yonkers merchant whose stubborn pursuit of marriage drives the comic misadventures in Thornton Wilder’s play "The Matchmaker."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Horace Vandergelder
Target entity description: Horace Vandergelder is a wealthy, cantankerous Yonkers merchant whose stubborn pursuit of marriage drives the comic misadventures in Thornton Wilder’s play "The Matchmaker."
  • A. Max Bialystock
    Max Bialystock is a flamboyant, down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and lovable con man who schemes to get rich by staging a guaranteed flop in Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers."
  • B. Ralph Uriah Hunsecker
    Ralph Uriah Hunsecker, better known as Ralph Blane, was an American composer and lyricist famed for co-writing classic songs for MGM musicals, including several standards from "Meet Me in St. Louis."
  • C. Mr. Mushnik
    Mr. Mushnik is the gruff, profit-driven owner of the struggling flower shop in the horror-comedy musical "Little Shop of Horrors."
  • D. Hyman Bloom
    Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his expressive, often mystical figurative works and his influential role in the mid-20th-century Boston Expressionist movement.
  • E. Joel Maisel
    Joel Maisel is a central character in the television series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," known as Miriam "Midge" Maisel's husband whose infidelity and failed comedy ambitions catalyze her journey into stand-up.
  • 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_69d6ab4a5c448190a110d1273314b21a completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9156709288190b4684cb19037dc38 completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f67b3f2c8190bcb2120781f91220 completed May 2, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f5fdea1afc8190b39557fdc571e300 completed May 2, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f5feeaf2e48190995f282b02a9caaf completed May 2, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.