Triple

T12224820
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McHale's Navy E291321 entity
Predicate portrayedBy P1507 FINISHED
Object Carl Ballantine
Carl Ballantine was an American actor and comedian best known for his pioneering comedy magic act and his role as the scheming Lester Gruber on the TV series "McHale's Navy."
E972728 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: Carl Ballantine | Statement: [McHale's Navy, portrayedBy, Carl Ballantine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Ballantine
Context triple: [McHale's Navy, portrayedBy, Carl Ballantine]
  • A. Paul Bales
    Paul Bales is a film producer known for his work on low-budget genre movies, including the fantasy action film "Avengers Grimm."
  • B. Arthur Demarest
    Arthur Demarest is an American archaeologist and Mayanist scholar known for his extensive research on Classic Maya civilization and leadership of major excavations in the Petexbatún region of Guatemala.
  • C. Charles Stillman
    Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
  • D. Barclay Wilson
    Barclay Wilson was a film editor known for his work on early 20th-century cinema, including the silent adventure-romance "The Son of the Sheik."
  • E. Henry Seabrook
    Henry Seabrook was an architect best known for designing the Europa Hotel in Belfast, one of the city's most prominent and historically significant hotels.
  • 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: Carl Ballantine
Triple: [McHale's Navy, portrayedBy, Carl Ballantine]
Generated description
Carl Ballantine was an American actor and comedian best known for his pioneering comedy magic act and his role as the scheming Lester Gruber on the TV series "McHale's Navy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Ballantine
Target entity description: Carl Ballantine was an American actor and comedian best known for his pioneering comedy magic act and his role as the scheming Lester Gruber on the TV series "McHale's Navy."
  • A. Paul Bales
    Paul Bales is a film producer known for his work on low-budget genre movies, including the fantasy action film "Avengers Grimm."
  • B. Arthur Demarest
    Arthur Demarest is an American archaeologist and Mayanist scholar known for his extensive research on Classic Maya civilization and leadership of major excavations in the Petexbatún region of Guatemala.
  • C. Charles Stillman
    Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
  • D. Barclay Wilson
    Barclay Wilson was a film editor known for his work on early 20th-century cinema, including the silent adventure-romance "The Son of the Sheik."
  • E. Henry Seabrook
    Henry Seabrook was an architect best known for designing the Europa Hotel in Belfast, one of the city's most prominent and historically significant hotels.
  • 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_69f60aa9023881909f8373e02d2cad4b completed May 2, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61a13fd1481908a06ca65b276e0e1 completed May 2, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f61ad2bd0c8190ada37bc1f8ae160f completed May 2, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.