Triple
T14454758
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Bickersons |
E358428
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Bickerson
John Bickerson is the perpetually bickering husband from the classic American radio comedy series "The Bickersons," known for his sarcastic exchanges with his wife Blanche.
|
E1107626
|
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: John Bickerson | Statement: [The Bickersons, mainCharacter, John Bickerson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bickerson Context triple: [The Bickersons, mainCharacter, John Bickerson]
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A.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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B.
George Borchers
George Borchers was a 19th-century American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball.
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C.
David Bowers
David Bowers is a British film director and animator best known for his work on animated features such as "Flushed Away" and entries in the "Astro Boy" and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" franchises.
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D.
Frank Bannister
Frank Bannister is a psychic investigator and con artist who can see and communicate with ghosts in the horror-comedy film "The Frighteners."
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E.
Michael Barker
Michael Barker was a British Army officer and general who held senior command positions, including leadership roles within I Corps, during the early stages of the Second World War.
- 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: John Bickerson Triple: [The Bickersons, mainCharacter, John Bickerson]
Generated description
John Bickerson is the perpetually bickering husband from the classic American radio comedy series "The Bickersons," known for his sarcastic exchanges with his wife Blanche.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bickerson Target entity description: John Bickerson is the perpetually bickering husband from the classic American radio comedy series "The Bickersons," known for his sarcastic exchanges with his wife Blanche.
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A.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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B.
George Borchers
George Borchers was a 19th-century American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball.
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C.
David Bowers
David Bowers is a British film director and animator best known for his work on animated features such as "Flushed Away" and entries in the "Astro Boy" and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" franchises.
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D.
Frank Bannister
Frank Bannister is a psychic investigator and con artist who can see and communicate with ghosts in the horror-comedy film "The Frighteners."
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E.
Michael Barker
Michael Barker was a British Army officer and general who held senior command positions, including leadership roles within I Corps, during the early stages of the Second World War.
- 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_69d82794dfa081909b9134ad2e32244b |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de91a8bf088190abf5fd4f646b8c62 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 7:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd94a4bb308190a39ba037debee16e |
completed | May 8, 2026, 7:45 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fd95d33c8881909fd746c13f9697a1 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 7:50 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fd962ae5008190a386ad5353c8b521 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 7:52 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:19 a.m.