Triple

T13020495
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Phoebe Buffay E326157 entity
Predicate exSpouse P23411 FINISHED
Object Duncan Sullivan
Duncan Sullivan is a minor character on the television show "Friends," known as Phoebe Buffay’s gay Canadian ice dancer husband whom she married to help him get a green card.
E1017611 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: Duncan Sullivan | Statement: [Phoebe Buffay, exSpouse, Duncan Sullivan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duncan Sullivan
Context triple: [Phoebe Buffay, exSpouse, Duncan Sullivan]
  • A. Michael J. McCulley
    Michael J. McCulley is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy submariner who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.
  • B. David Sullivan
    David Sullivan is a British businessman and former pornography and media magnate best known as the co-owner and long-serving chairman of Premier League football club West Ham United.
  • C. Dan Sullivan
    Dan Sullivan is a Republican U.S. Senator from Alaska, known for his work on national security, energy policy, and Arctic issues.
  • D. Mike Sullivan
    Mike Sullivan is an American professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to multiple Stanley Cup championships.
  • E. Daniel J. Sullivan
    Daniel J. Sullivan was the first husband of Dorothy Ruth, the daughter of baseball legend Babe Ruth.
  • 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: Duncan Sullivan
Triple: [Phoebe Buffay, exSpouse, Duncan Sullivan]
Generated description
Duncan Sullivan is a minor character on the television show "Friends," known as Phoebe Buffay’s gay Canadian ice dancer husband whom she married to help him get a green card.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Duncan Sullivan
Target entity description: Duncan Sullivan is a minor character on the television show "Friends," known as Phoebe Buffay’s gay Canadian ice dancer husband whom she married to help him get a green card.
  • A. Michael J. McCulley
    Michael J. McCulley is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy submariner who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.
  • B. David Sullivan
    David Sullivan is a British businessman and former pornography and media magnate best known as the co-owner and long-serving chairman of Premier League football club West Ham United.
  • C. Dan Sullivan
    Dan Sullivan is a Republican U.S. Senator from Alaska, known for his work on national security, energy policy, and Arctic issues.
  • D. Mike Sullivan
    Mike Sullivan is an American professional ice hockey coach best known for leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to multiple Stanley Cup championships.
  • E. Daniel J. Sullivan
    Daniel J. Sullivan was the first husband of Dorothy Ruth, the daughter of baseball legend Babe Ruth.
  • 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_69d8076cc45c81908123123f43e69266 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97ecf21bc819082fb512bc479b4be completed April 10, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6cbc98e10819091d71198bca1ac12 completed May 3, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6ce6278e081908864fba1db23ada0 completed May 3, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6cf547b188190b24c51e06a3b4d3c completed May 3, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:51 p.m.