Triple

T12559947
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! E295314 entity
Predicate hasSegment P3574 FINISHED
Object Bluff the Listener
Bluff the Listener is a recurring comedic game segment on the NPR news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" in which panelists present bizarre stories and callers must guess which one is true.
E991551 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: Bluff the Listener | Statement: [Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, hasSegment, Bluff the Listener]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bluff the Listener
Context triple: [Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, hasSegment, Bluff the Listener]
  • A. The Trick
    The Trick is a British drama film in which George MacKay stars in a story inspired by the real-life "Climategate" email hacking scandal.
  • B. House of the Deaf Man
    House of the Deaf Man is the name of Francisco Goya’s former residence near Madrid, famed as the site where he painted his haunting Black Paintings directly onto the walls.
  • C. Hullabaloo
    Hullabaloo was a 1960s American musical variety television show that featured popular rock and pop performers of the era.
  • D. A Shot in the Dark
    A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy-mystery film best known as one of the early entries in the Pink Panther series, featuring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau.
  • E. Shenanigans
    Shenanigans is a 2002 compilation album by American punk rock band Green Day, featuring B-sides, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks.
  • 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: Bluff the Listener
Triple: [Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, hasSegment, Bluff the Listener]
Generated description
Bluff the Listener is a recurring comedic game segment on the NPR news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" in which panelists present bizarre stories and callers must guess which one is true.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bluff the Listener
Target entity description: Bluff the Listener is a recurring comedic game segment on the NPR news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" in which panelists present bizarre stories and callers must guess which one is true.
  • A. The Trick
    The Trick is a British drama film in which George MacKay stars in a story inspired by the real-life "Climategate" email hacking scandal.
  • B. House of the Deaf Man
    House of the Deaf Man is the name of Francisco Goya’s former residence near Madrid, famed as the site where he painted his haunting Black Paintings directly onto the walls.
  • C. Hullabaloo
    Hullabaloo was a 1960s American musical variety television show that featured popular rock and pop performers of the era.
  • D. A Shot in the Dark
    A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy-mystery film best known as one of the early entries in the Pink Panther series, featuring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau.
  • E. Shenanigans
    Shenanigans is a 2002 compilation album by American punk rock band Green Day, featuring B-sides, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks.
  • 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_69d6ad9cac2c81908e8a7bed82d1e21d completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d954933e7c819083471c627ce55ff1 completed April 10, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6558b307c81909ec5407af013de1d completed May 2, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f656a6dafc81908acf59c0ba65189a completed May 2, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f65b4d109c8190b48c71f664e7bb3f completed May 2, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 11:48 p.m.