Triple

T14191960
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Al Swearengen E351732 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object E.B. Farnum
E.B. Farnum is a scheming, obsequious hotel owner and political figure in the television series "Deadwood," known for his craven loyalty to Al Swearengen.
 E1086593 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: E.B. Farnum | Statement: [Al Swearengen, associatedWith, E.B. Farnum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: E.B. Farnum
Context triple: [Al Swearengen, associatedWith, E.B. Farnum]
  • A. Franklyn Farnum
    Franklyn Farnum was an American character actor and former silent film leading man who appeared in numerous Hollywood films and television shows from the 1910s through the 1960s.
  • B. Alfred Day
    Alfred Day was a 19th-century English music theorist best known for his influential work on harmonic theory.
  • C. William Farnum
    William Farnum was a prominent American stage and silent film actor of the early 20th century, known for his powerful performances in dramas and historical epics.
  • D. Elisha Cook Jr.
    Elisha Cook Jr. was an American character actor best known for his portrayals of nervous, hapless, or morally compromised men in classic film noir and crime movies.
  • E. Jack Kilmer
    Jack Kilmer is an American actor and model known for roles in independent films such as "Palo Alto," and is the son of actor Val Kilmer.
  • 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: E.B. Farnum
Triple: [Al Swearengen, associatedWith, E.B. Farnum]
Generated description
E.B. Farnum is a scheming, obsequious hotel owner and political figure in the television series "Deadwood," known for his craven loyalty to Al Swearengen.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: E.B. Farnum
Target entity description: E.B. Farnum is a scheming, obsequious hotel owner and political figure in the television series "Deadwood," known for his craven loyalty to Al Swearengen.
  • A. Franklyn Farnum
    Franklyn Farnum was an American character actor and former silent film leading man who appeared in numerous Hollywood films and television shows from the 1910s through the 1960s.
  • B. Alfred Day
    Alfred Day was a 19th-century English music theorist best known for his influential work on harmonic theory.
  • C. William Farnum
    William Farnum was a prominent American stage and silent film actor of the early 20th century, known for his powerful performances in dramas and historical epics.
  • D. Elisha Cook Jr.
    Elisha Cook Jr. was an American character actor best known for his portrayals of nervous, hapless, or morally compromised men in classic film noir and crime movies.
  • E. Jack Kilmer
    Jack Kilmer is an American actor and model known for roles in independent films such as "Palo Alto," and is the son of actor Val Kilmer.
  • 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_69d827894ac0819097803e57f3227b23 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de61e0a52081908213aa6e548d4418 completed April 14, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd1946eb68819096adf3c16a39818d completed May 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd1eed1008819088635be43fbb1439 completed May 7, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd1f7c5d208190bab5d57e931fd082 completed May 7, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:04 a.m.