Triple

T1224131
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Guy Named Joe E26287 entity
Predicate castMember P1668 FINISHED
Object Van Johnson
Van Johnson was a popular American film and television actor of the 1940s and 1950s, known for his boy-next-door charm and roles in wartime dramas and musicals.
E182115 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: Van Johnson | Statement: [A Guy Named Joe, castMember, Van Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Van Johnson
Context triple: [A Guy Named Joe, castMember, Van Johnson]
  • A. Stuart Erwin
    Stuart Erwin was an American actor known for his work in early 20th-century film, radio, and television, often portraying affable, comedic everyman characters.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Edward O'Hare
    Edward O'Hare was a famed U.S. Navy fighter pilot and World War II flying ace who became the first naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Dick Powell
    Dick Powell was an American actor, singer, and later film director and producer, known for his transition from light musical roles to hard-boiled film noir leads in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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: Van Johnson
Triple: [A Guy Named Joe, castMember, Van Johnson]
Generated description
Van Johnson was a popular American film and television actor of the 1940s and 1950s, known for his boy-next-door charm and roles in wartime dramas and musicals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Van Johnson
Target entity description: Van Johnson was a popular American film and television actor of the 1940s and 1950s, known for his boy-next-door charm and roles in wartime dramas and musicals.
  • A. Stuart Erwin
    Stuart Erwin was an American actor known for his work in early 20th-century film, radio, and television, often portraying affable, comedic everyman characters.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Edward O'Hare
    Edward O'Hare was a famed U.S. Navy fighter pilot and World War II flying ace who became the first naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Dick Powell
    Dick Powell was an American actor, singer, and later film director and producer, known for his transition from light musical roles to hard-boiled film noir leads in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • 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_69a4be233fd88190996faf4105c0b8d7 completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad51996dc08190afecb40095e3d3e2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad521ac9a88190978b9ed3e3d14d98 completed March 8, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad52bfdbec81908f7240c46ce11888 completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.