Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Treat Williams E322049 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Richard Treat Williams
Richard Treat Williams was an American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in "Hair," "Prince of the City," and the TV series "Everwood."
E1026397 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 Treat Williams | Statement: [Treat Williams, birthName, Richard Treat Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Treat Williams
Context triple: [Treat Williams, birthName, Richard Treat Williams]
  • A. Andreas Whittam Smith
    Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
  • B. Thomas Wilson Brown
    Thomas Wilson Brown is an American actor best known for his roles in films and television series such as "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and "Knots Landing."
  • C. Thomas Mayne
    Thomas Mayne was an Australian food scientist best known for creating the chocolate malted milk drink Milo in the 1930s.
  • D. H. Ward Wolff
    H. Ward Wolff is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the medical diagnostics company Cepheid.
  • E. Algur H. Meadows
    Algur H. Meadows was an American oil tycoon and philanthropist best known for his major art patronage and charitable contributions, including the establishment of the Meadows Museum.
  • 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 Treat Williams
Triple: [Treat Williams, birthName, Richard Treat Williams]
Generated description
Richard Treat Williams was an American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in "Hair," "Prince of the City," and the TV series "Everwood."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Treat Williams
Target entity description: Richard Treat Williams was an American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in "Hair," "Prince of the City," and the TV series "Everwood."
  • A. Andreas Whittam Smith
    Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
  • B. Thomas Wilson Brown
    Thomas Wilson Brown is an American actor best known for his roles in films and television series such as "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and "Knots Landing."
  • C. Thomas Mayne
    Thomas Mayne was an Australian food scientist best known for creating the chocolate malted milk drink Milo in the 1930s.
  • D. H. Ward Wolff
    H. Ward Wolff is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the medical diagnostics company Cepheid.
  • E. Algur H. Meadows
    Algur H. Meadows was an American oil tycoon and philanthropist best known for his major art patronage and charitable contributions, including the establishment of the Meadows Museum.
  • 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_69d97e7980288190a9fe629a8cc76a52 completed April 10, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6f5c2df08819086d9a9107b0a6935 completed May 3, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6f6ba509c8190a99426ba4506d31f completed May 3, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6f812ae048190907b8def6b0d019c completed May 3, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:45 p.m.