Triple

T14166529
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Bernie Mac Show E351091 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Bernie McCullough
Bernie McCullough is the fictionalized version of comedian Bernie Mac, serving as the blunt, no-nonsense yet loving patriarch at the center of the sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show."
E1083090 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: Bernie McCullough | Statement: [The Bernie Mac Show, character, Bernie McCullough]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernie McCullough
Context triple: [The Bernie Mac Show, character, Bernie McCullough]
  • A. Conrad Bain
    Conrad Bain was a Canadian-American actor best known for playing the wealthy, kind-hearted father Philip Drummond on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes."
  • B. William Joel Bryan
    William Joel Bryan was a 19th-century Texas landowner and nephew of Stephen F. Austin, recognized as an early settler and community figure in the region that now includes the city of Bryan, Texas.
  • C. Buckley Dunstan
    Buckley Dunstan is the infant son whose impending and eventual birth drives the family-centered comedy and generational tensions in the 1951 film "Father's Little Dividend."
  • D. Joseph Cather Newsom
    Joseph Cather Newsom was a prominent late-19th-century American architect known for his elaborate Queen Anne and Victorian-style buildings in California.
  • E. Kerry Shear Waite
    Kerry Shear Waite is known as the spouse of the late American actor Ralph Waite, who was best recognized for his role as John Walton Sr. on the television series "The Waltons."
  • 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: Bernie McCullough
Triple: [The Bernie Mac Show, character, Bernie McCullough]
Generated description
Bernie McCullough is the fictionalized version of comedian Bernie Mac, serving as the blunt, no-nonsense yet loving patriarch at the center of the sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernie McCullough
Target entity description: Bernie McCullough is the fictionalized version of comedian Bernie Mac, serving as the blunt, no-nonsense yet loving patriarch at the center of the sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show."
  • A. Conrad Bain
    Conrad Bain was a Canadian-American actor best known for playing the wealthy, kind-hearted father Philip Drummond on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes."
  • B. William Joel Bryan
    William Joel Bryan was a 19th-century Texas landowner and nephew of Stephen F. Austin, recognized as an early settler and community figure in the region that now includes the city of Bryan, Texas.
  • C. Buckley Dunstan
    Buckley Dunstan is the infant son whose impending and eventual birth drives the family-centered comedy and generational tensions in the 1951 film "Father's Little Dividend."
  • D. Joseph Cather Newsom
    Joseph Cather Newsom was a prominent late-19th-century American architect known for his elaborate Queen Anne and Victorian-style buildings in California.
  • E. Kerry Shear Waite
    Kerry Shear Waite is known as the spouse of the late American actor Ralph Waite, who was best recognized for his role as John Walton Sr. on the television series "The Waltons."
  • 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_69de61b355f08190864c7322bbcb766d completed April 14, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcf7f57ad88190aeb8ee0f834bfa20 completed May 7, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fcfdcbd53c81909a347e26b30f9c0b completed May 7, 2026, 9:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fcfe9099508190bafd65d0d00129f0 completed May 7, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1 a.m.