Triple

T14645964
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edgar Bergen E343849 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Edgar John Berggren
Edgar John Berggren, better known as Edgar Bergen, was a famous American ventriloquist and radio entertainer renowned for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
E1114875 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: Edgar John Berggren | Statement: [Edgar Bergen, birthName, Edgar John Berggren]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar John Berggren
Context triple: [Edgar Bergen, birthName, Edgar John Berggren]
  • A. William Hjortsberg
    William Hjortsberg was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his dark fantasy and crime fiction, including the novel "Falling Angel," which was adapted into the film "Angel Heart."
  • B. Theodore Wenner
    Theodore Wenner is one of the children of Jann Wenner, the co-founder and longtime publisher of Rolling Stone magazine.
  • C. Herbert Theodore Bergman
    Herbert Theodore Bergman was the birth name of American actor Alan Reed, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone in the classic animated television series.
  • D. G. W. Edlund
    G. W. Edlund was a Swedish publisher known for issuing notable Finnish literary works, including Aleksis Kivi’s classic novel "Seven Brothers."
  • E. Carl F. Wallin
    Carl F. Wallin was an early 20th-century American businessman best known as the co-founder of the Nordstrom retail company.
  • 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: Edgar John Berggren
Triple: [Edgar Bergen, birthName, Edgar John Berggren]
Generated description
Edgar John Berggren, better known as Edgar Bergen, was a famous American ventriloquist and radio entertainer renowned for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar John Berggren
Target entity description: Edgar John Berggren, better known as Edgar Bergen, was a famous American ventriloquist and radio entertainer renowned for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
  • A. William Hjortsberg
    William Hjortsberg was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his dark fantasy and crime fiction, including the novel "Falling Angel," which was adapted into the film "Angel Heart."
  • B. Theodore Wenner
    Theodore Wenner is one of the children of Jann Wenner, the co-founder and longtime publisher of Rolling Stone magazine.
  • C. Herbert Theodore Bergman
    Herbert Theodore Bergman was the birth name of American actor Alan Reed, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone in the classic animated television series.
  • D. G. W. Edlund
    G. W. Edlund was a Swedish publisher known for issuing notable Finnish literary works, including Aleksis Kivi’s classic novel "Seven Brothers."
  • E. Carl F. Wallin
    Carl F. Wallin was a Swedish businessman active in early 20th-century trade and industry, known for his commercial partnerships such as with Johan Nordström.
  • 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_69d822e1a2cc81908e5bb93cf61ce3cc completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb4ea6d8481908e6331ca173c646b completed April 14, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdf07acd748190b2821dee21ecd740 completed May 8, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdf2577be48190906e6efce6669c06 completed May 8, 2026, 2:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdf2b9faf8819092bb221a3f5f71f6 completed May 8, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:26 a.m.