Triple

T12224815
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McHale's Navy E291321 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Lester Gruber
Lester Gruber is a scheming, opportunistic sailor and comic foil on the classic TV sitcom "McHale's Navy."
E1144645 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: Lester Gruber | Statement: [McHale's Navy, character, Lester Gruber]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Gruber
Context triple: [McHale's Navy, character, Lester Gruber]
  • A. Oscar Lerman
    Oscar Lerman was a British nightclub owner and art dealer best known as the husband of novelist Jackie Collins.
  • B. Lester Germer
    Lester Germer was an American physicist best known for the Davisson–Germer experiment, which provided key evidence for the wave nature of electrons and helped confirm quantum mechanics.
  • C. Stanley Saitowitz
    Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
  • D. Oscar Shumsky
    Oscar Shumsky was a distinguished 20th-century American violinist and pedagogue renowned for his refined technique, rich tone, and influential teaching career.
  • E. Joseph Liebgott
    Joseph Liebgott was a paratrooper and rifleman in Easy Company of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division during World War II, known from the book and miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • 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: Lester Gruber
Triple: [McHale's Navy, character, Lester Gruber]
Generated description
Lester Gruber is a scheming, opportunistic sailor and comic foil on the classic TV sitcom "McHale's Navy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Gruber
Target entity description: Lester Gruber is a scheming, opportunistic sailor and comic foil on the classic TV sitcom "McHale's Navy."
  • A. Oscar Lerman
    Oscar Lerman was a British nightclub owner and art dealer best known as the husband of novelist Jackie Collins.
  • B. Lester Germer
    Lester Germer was an American physicist best known for the Davisson–Germer experiment, which provided key evidence for the wave nature of electrons and helped confirm quantum mechanics.
  • C. Stanley Saitowitz
    Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
  • D. Oscar Shumsky
    Oscar Shumsky was a distinguished 20th-century American violinist and pedagogue renowned for his refined technique, rich tone, and influential teaching career.
  • E. Joseph Liebgott
    Joseph Liebgott was a paratrooper and rifleman in Easy Company of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division during World War II, known from the book and miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • 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_69d6ab668acc8190963ba424049d6aee completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91ca11f788190bad2efb6c83ffccb completed April 10, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fedd19164481909c2f35fbebf6150e completed May 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fede23eab88190ab026382ba3ea06b completed May 9, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fede93c6a88190afc35f9e3f16a6f2 completed May 9, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.