Triple

T14152584
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Ogden Stiers E350722 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Stiers
Stiers is the surname of American actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on the television series M*A*S*H.
 E1084396 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: Stiers | Statement: [David Ogden Stiers, familyName, Stiers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stiers
Context triple: [David Ogden Stiers, familyName, Stiers]
  • A. Scallabis
    Scallabis was the ancient Roman name for the city now known as Santarém in central Portugal, an important settlement in the Roman province of Lusitania.
  • B. Tengster
    Tengster is an alternative name for Taktser, a village in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibet best known as the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama.
  • C. Vargo
    Vargo is a surname most notably associated with Ed Vargo, an American Major League Baseball umpire.
  • D. Stroobos
    Stroobos is a small village in the northern Netherlands, situated on the border of Friesland and Groningen and known for its location along important waterways and canals.
  • E. Hölldobler
    Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
  • 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: Stiers
Triple: [David Ogden Stiers, familyName, Stiers]
Generated description
Stiers is the surname of American actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on the television series M*A*S*H.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stiers
Target entity description: Stiers is the surname of American actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on the television series M*A*S*H.
  • A. Scallabis
    Scallabis was the ancient Roman name for the city now known as Santarém in central Portugal, an important settlement in the Roman province of Lusitania.
  • B. Tengster
    Tengster is an alternative name for Taktser, a village in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibet best known as the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama.
  • C. Vargo
    Vargo is a surname most notably associated with Ed Vargo, an American Major League Baseball umpire.
  • D. Stroobos
    Stroobos is a small village in the northern Netherlands, situated on the border of Friesland and Groningen and known for its location along important waterways and canals.
  • E. Hölldobler
    Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
  • 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_69d8278775fc8190b0802d22ca2f495d completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6133754881908e1e97db71772deb completed April 14, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcf7ea34408190830263d7f5a88ce9 completed May 7, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd067e73708190adcb4e1c2fbf210d completed May 7, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd0c5161dc8190a923c5b00dc5b53a completed May 7, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:57 a.m.