Triple

T12669120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wil Wheaton E302630 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Richard William Wheaton III
Richard William Wheaton III, better known as Wil Wheaton, is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his roles in "Stand by Me" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
E995384 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: Richard William Wheaton III | Statement: [Wil Wheaton, birthName, Richard William Wheaton III]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard William Wheaton III
Context triple: [Wil Wheaton, birthName, Richard William Wheaton III]
  • A. Warren Wheaton
    Warren Wheaton was a 19th-century American settler and landowner recognized as a principal founder and namesake of the city of Wheaton, Illinois.
  • B. Richard Feetham
    Richard Feetham was a South African lawyer, judge, and politician known for his role in constitutional and municipal reform in South Africa and other parts of the British Empire.
  • C. John Requa
    John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
  • D. Michael Willett
    Michael Willett is an American actor and singer best known for his roles in the TV series "United States of Tara" and MTV's "Faking It."
  • E. Michael Hunsaker
    Michael Hunsaker is a fictional former Vietnam War comrade of Roger Murtaugh whose involvement in a dangerous heroin-smuggling operation drives much of the plot in the action film "Lethal Weapon."
  • 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: Richard William Wheaton III
Triple: [Wil Wheaton, birthName, Richard William Wheaton III]
Generated description
Richard William Wheaton III, better known as Wil Wheaton, is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his roles in "Stand by Me" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard William Wheaton III
Target entity description: Richard William Wheaton III, better known as Wil Wheaton, is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his roles in "Stand by Me" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
  • A. Warren Wheaton
    Warren Wheaton was a 19th-century American settler and landowner recognized as a principal founder and namesake of the city of Wheaton, Illinois.
  • B. Richard Feetham
    Richard Feetham was a South African lawyer, judge, and politician known for his role in constitutional and municipal reform in South Africa and other parts of the British Empire.
  • C. John Requa
    John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
  • D. Michael Willett
    Michael Willett is an American actor and singer best known for his roles in the TV series "United States of Tara" and MTV's "Faking It."
  • E. Michael Hunsaker
    Michael Hunsaker is a fictional former Vietnam War comrade of Roger Murtaugh whose involvement in a dangerous heroin-smuggling operation drives much of the plot in the action film "Lethal Weapon."
  • 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_69d7bded71a88190bb76e2413af9ea66 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96183a6048190b2ef219eb9d20aa4 completed April 10, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6688e101481909bc3b9e13ed84632 completed May 2, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6697e3a688190abd025df1112feba completed May 2, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f66a9230608190bfe99290ca1679fa completed May 2, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:20 p.m.