Triple

T1223064
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Way We Were E26267 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1990s, often portraying complex or authoritative characters.
E180066 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: Bradford Dillman | Statement: [The Way We Were, starring, Bradford Dillman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bradford Dillman
Context triple: [The Way We Were, starring, Bradford Dillman]
  • A. Cornel Wilde
    Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker known for his athletic, romantic leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and later for directing and starring in the survival adventure "The Naked Prey."
  • B. Rock Hudson
    Rock Hudson was a popular American film and television actor of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned as a romantic leading man and later noted as one of the first major Hollywood stars whose AIDS-related death brought widespread public attention to the disease.
  • C. Joel McCrea
    Joel McCrea was an American film actor best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood Westerns and comedies from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • D. Robert Young
    Robert Young was an American actor best known for his starring roles in the classic television series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D."
  • E. Victor Mature
    Victor Mature was an American film actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood epics and adventure films.
  • 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: Bradford Dillman
Triple: [The Way We Were, starring, Bradford Dillman]
Generated description
Bradford Dillman was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1990s, often portraying complex or authoritative characters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bradford Dillman
Target entity description: Bradford Dillman was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1990s, often portraying complex or authoritative characters.
  • A. Cornel Wilde
    Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker known for his athletic, romantic leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and later for directing and starring in the survival adventure "The Naked Prey."
  • B. Rock Hudson
    Rock Hudson was a popular American film and television actor of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned as a romantic leading man and later noted as one of the first major Hollywood stars whose AIDS-related death brought widespread public attention to the disease.
  • C. Joel McCrea
    Joel McCrea was an American film actor best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood Westerns and comedies from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  • D. Robert Young
    Robert Young was an American actor best known for his starring roles in the classic television series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D."
  • E. Victor Mature
    Victor Mature was an American film actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood epics and adventure films.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be21a2bc819094b47580d7c5cdf8 completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad4682bac88190a25bcc211179296d completed March 8, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad46e8dfa081909db19db6c7349456 completed March 8, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad472da87c8190a5a6ab9504cb81d8 completed March 8, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.