Triple

T12993990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Morton DaCosta E321985 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Morton Tecosky
Morton Tecosky, better known professionally as Morton DaCosta, was an American stage and film director and actor noted for directing the hit musical and film adaptation "The Music Man."
E1015807 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: Morton Tecosky | Statement: [Morton DaCosta, birthName, Morton Tecosky]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morton Tecosky
Context triple: [Morton DaCosta, birthName, Morton Tecosky]
  • A. Gary Tinterow
    Gary Tinterow is an American art historian and museum curator best known for leading the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and for his scholarship on 19th-century European art.
  • B. George Minafer
    George Minafer is the spoiled, arrogant heir of a wealthy Midwestern family whose downfall and gradual self-awareness drive the plot of Booth Tarkington’s novel *The Magnificent Ambersons*.
  • C. Donald Tokowitz
    Donald Tokowitz is better known as Donald Sterling, the former owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers who became widely known for a major racism scandal that led to his lifetime ban from the league.
  • D. John Masius
    John Masius is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular drama series, including the spiritual drama "Touched by an Angel."
  • E. Vern Schillinger
    Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
  • 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: Morton Tecosky
Triple: [Morton DaCosta, birthName, Morton Tecosky]
Generated description
Morton Tecosky, better known professionally as Morton DaCosta, was an American stage and film director and actor noted for directing the hit musical and film adaptation "The Music Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morton Tecosky
Target entity description: Morton Tecosky, better known professionally as Morton DaCosta, was an American stage and film director and actor noted for directing the hit musical and film adaptation "The Music Man."
  • A. Gary Tinterow
    Gary Tinterow is an American art historian and museum curator best known for leading the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and for his scholarship on 19th-century European art.
  • B. George Minafer
    George Minafer is the spoiled, arrogant heir of a wealthy Midwestern family whose downfall and gradual self-awareness drive the plot of Booth Tarkington’s novel *The Magnificent Ambersons*.
  • C. Donald Tokowitz
    Donald Tokowitz is better known as Donald Sterling, the former owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers who became widely known for a major racism scandal that led to his lifetime ban from the league.
  • D. John Masius
    John Masius is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and writing several popular drama series, including the spiritual drama "Touched by an Angel."
  • E. Vern Schillinger
    Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
  • 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_69d8076479b8819090afce3591939cdf completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e7877f481908a03f1077600e58a completed April 10, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6c0fca5e4819086b010fdd1813419 completed May 3, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6c20a1eb881908a28dc884c2005ef completed May 3, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6c34b9ec08190bb29458b6f43c388 completed May 3, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:44 p.m.