Triple
T14455288
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Waiting for Guffman |
E358442
|
entity |
| Predicate | titleCharacter |
P9202
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Corky St. Clair
Corky St. Clair is the flamboyant, small-town community theater director portrayed by Christopher Guest in the mockumentary film "Waiting for Guffman."
|
E1100682
|
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: Corky St. Clair | Statement: [Waiting for Guffman, titleCharacter, Corky St. Clair]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Corky St. Clair Context triple: [Waiting for Guffman, titleCharacter, Corky St. Clair]
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A.
Corky Withers
Corky Withers is the psychologically troubled ventriloquist at the center of the horror film "Magic," whose increasingly unstable relationship with his dummy drives the story's suspense and terror.
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B.
Denny Love
Denny Love is an American actor best known for his role as Chip "The Colonel" Martin in the television miniseries adaptation of John Green's novel "Looking for Alaska."
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C.
Lenny Cooke
Lenny Cooke is a 2013 documentary film chronicling the rise and unfulfilled NBA dreams of high school basketball phenom Lenny Cooke, co-directed by Josh and Benny Safdie.
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Terry Gilkyson
Terry Gilkyson was an American folk singer and songwriter best known for penning classic Disney songs, including "The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book.
- 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: Corky St. Clair Triple: [Waiting for Guffman, titleCharacter, Corky St. Clair]
Generated description
Corky St. Clair is the flamboyant, small-town community theater director portrayed by Christopher Guest in the mockumentary film "Waiting for Guffman."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Corky St. Clair Target entity description: Corky St. Clair is the flamboyant, small-town community theater director portrayed by Christopher Guest in the mockumentary film "Waiting for Guffman."
-
A.
Corky Withers
Corky Withers is the psychologically troubled ventriloquist at the center of the horror film "Magic," whose increasingly unstable relationship with his dummy drives the story's suspense and terror.
-
B.
Denny Love
Denny Love is an American actor best known for his role as Chip "The Colonel" Martin in the television miniseries adaptation of John Green's novel "Looking for Alaska."
-
C.
Lenny Cooke
Lenny Cooke is a 2013 documentary film chronicling the rise and unfulfilled NBA dreams of high school basketball phenom Lenny Cooke, co-directed by Josh and Benny Safdie.
-
D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
-
E.
Terry Gilkyson
Terry Gilkyson was an American folk singer and songwriter best known for penning classic Disney songs, including "The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book.
- 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_69fd649177108190be32af72dcae04ee |
completed | May 8, 2026, 4:20 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fd664347c48190a411141398794b88 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 4:27 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fd66e5d6b08190ad94a6a5f1809c2a |
completed | May 8, 2026, 4:30 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:19 a.m.