Triple

T13958368
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Reynolds E335726 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object William de Clerq Reynolds
William de Clerq Reynolds was an American actor best known for his role as Special Agent Tom Colby on the television series "The F.B.I."
E1071377 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: William de Clerq Reynolds | Statement: [William Reynolds, birthName, William de Clerq Reynolds]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William de Clerq Reynolds
Context triple: [William Reynolds, birthName, William de Clerq Reynolds]
  • A. John Fulton Reynolds
    John Fulton Reynolds was a prominent Union Army major general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership and death on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • B. William Fenwick Williams
    William Fenwick Williams was a British Army officer best known for his distinguished leadership and defense of the fortress city of Kars during the Crimean War.
  • C. William G. Bramham
    William G. Bramham was a prominent early 20th-century baseball executive best known for his influential leadership in organizing and expanding the minor leagues in the United States.
  • D. Renfrey B. Potts
    Renfrey B. Potts was an Australian mathematician and physicist best known for formulating the Potts model in statistical mechanics.
  • E. Henry Collins Brown
    Henry Collins Brown was a Scottish-born American historian, author, and lecturer best known for chronicling New York City's history and founding the Museum of the City of New York.
  • 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: William de Clerq Reynolds
Triple: [William Reynolds, birthName, William de Clerq Reynolds]
Generated description
William de Clerq Reynolds was an American actor best known for his role as Special Agent Tom Colby on the television series "The F.B.I."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William de Clerq Reynolds
Target entity description: William de Clerq Reynolds was an American actor best known for his role as Special Agent Tom Colby on the television series "The F.B.I."
  • A. John Fulton Reynolds
    John Fulton Reynolds was a prominent Union Army major general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership and death on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • B. William Fenwick Williams
    William Fenwick Williams was a British Army officer best known for his distinguished leadership and defense of the fortress city of Kars during the Crimean War.
  • C. William G. Bramham
    William G. Bramham was a prominent early 20th-century baseball executive best known for his influential leadership in organizing and expanding the minor leagues in the United States.
  • D. Renfrey B. Potts
    Renfrey B. Potts was an Australian mathematician and physicist best known for formulating the Potts model in statistical mechanics.
  • E. Henry Collins Brown
    Henry Collins Brown was a Scottish-born American historian, author, and lecturer best known for chronicling New York City's history and founding the Museum of the City of New York.
  • 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_69d81c61f3508190aaf2ca0dc0002c59 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2e7a34f08190aa0d88b66154f268 completed April 14, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fba1d490048190b28cb44dd4ec46c4 completed May 6, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fba5646cb48190acd932f6fbd6fe62 completed May 6, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fba6525d0c8190a1ab15881030c11c completed May 6, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:17 p.m.